Art in America

Emily Watlington, A Retrospective Introduces Francis Picabia to a New Generation—with Funhouse Mirrors and a Peep Show

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Chris Ofili brings story of Laure—the Black model painted by Manet—in from the margins at Turin exhibition

Angelica Hankins, After seven years, Hirshhorn Museum opens Hiroshi Sugimoto-designed sculpture garden

Martin Bailey, Behind a Van Gogh picture: the stories revealed on the reverse

Benjamin Sutton, Hong Kong’s M+ Museum launches alliance with Centre Pompidou and MoMA as part of fifth anniversary celebrations—podcast

Sindbad Hammache, Restoration of Brutalist tower in France offers critical lessons in working with concrete heritage

Hannah Sage Kay, New York’s Socrates Sculpture Park rebuilds for resilience and expands

Carlie Porterfield, Dallas Art Fair scores new venue at football training facility

Alexander Morrison, As protests in Georgia intensify again, a new private museum puts focus on the country’s artists

Gareth Harris, Largest ever Piero della Francesca exhibition to open at London’s National Gallery

Artforum

From the Editors, Ebony L. Haynes Named Senior Director at Marian Goodman in Leadership Shakeup

From the Editors, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Whose Massive Wood Totems Brought Warmth to Minimalism, Dead at 84

From the Editors, Ballot Question Offers to Make Philadelphia’s Arts and Culture Office Permanent

From the Editors, Artists Unveil Work In New Vacheron Constantin Partnership With The Met

From the Editors, The World Monuments Fund Triples Its Endowment

From the Editors, Hegseth and Mullin Claim Trump’s Arch Is a “National Defense Opportunity”

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Form an Unprecedented Alliance

Richard Whiddington, Pauline Karpidas’s Jewelry Collection Dazzled Warhol. Now It’s Up for Sale

Andrew Russeth, Which Rembrandt Would You Get Tattooed Onto Your Body?

Sonia Manalili, London! Paris! Rome? The Round Up Goes International

Katya Kazakina, Will Art Basel Compensate Galleries for Closing Early in Paris?

Margaret Carrigan, Inside the U.K. Books of Three Mega-Galleries

ARTnews

Devorah Lauter, Louvre Signs Deal with Unions, Ending Threat of Continued Strikes

Devorah Lauter, In Postwar Rural France, Alexander Calder Found Respite from Pressures of Fame and a Chance to Dream Big

Alex Greenberger, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Will Treat Their Holdings as One Collection in Unprecedented Alliance

Daniel Cassady, U.S. Pavilion at Venice Biennale Is $1 M. Short, and Its Sculptures May Be Stuck in Italy

Hikmat Mohammed, Kim Kardashian’s First Auction Purchase Was a Monet Painting Because of the Film ‘Clueless’

Brian Boucher, After a Museum Explores Homes Destroyed by US-Made Munitions, House Republicans Demand Information on Smithsonian’s Curatorial Process

Hikmat Mohammed, Phillips UK Reports Revenue Drop of 22.3 Percent for 2025, But Claims 2026 Is Major Rebound

Daniel Cassady, Suspected Thieves Flee Dresden Museum Complex After Being Spotted by Security Guard

Anne Doran, Tony Berlant, Artist Known for Cut Metal Collages, Dies at 85

Daniel Cassady, Dallas Art Fair Is Moving to Southern Methodist University in 2027

Maximilíano Durón, Naomi Beckwith Adds Four to Documenta 16’s Curatorial Team, Including Artist Raven Chacon

Harrison Jacobs, Art Dealer Family the Nahmads Are the Consignors Behind $80 M. Kandinsky Set to Break a Record at Christie’s

ArtReview

Mark Rappolt, Busan Biennale 2026 Review: Let’s Misbehave!

From the Editors, In Pictures: 2027 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize shortlist announced

The Boston Globe

Murray Whyte, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock’s long-suffering wife, steps out of his shadow at the Met’s spectacular exhibition

The Guardian

Peter Bradshaw, Oh to Believe in Another World review – William Kentridge’s amazing animated ballet of black comic pain

Agence France-Presse, Inter and Milan unveil plans for new shared stadium to replace San Siro

Dee Jefferson, The beautiful, shocking work of artist Hoda Afshar: ‘I don’t take freedom of speech for granted’

Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic, Are Black Cats Modernity’s Icons?

Valentina Di Liscia, Documenta 16 Names Four New Curatorial Team Members

Rebecca Schiffman, How Édouard Manet’s Black Cat Became a Symbol of Modernity

Rhea Nayyar, This Year’s Gay Halloween Celebrates Women’s Rights and Wrongs

Matt Stromberg, Why Do Horror Films Have Such a Hold on Our Imaginations?

Phillip Pyle, Hell Takes the Form of State Repression in 1971’s “The Devils”

Eileen Isagon Skyers, Before AI There Was the Octopus

The New York Times

Sarah Bahr, What’s New at the Museum? Stargazing, Escape Rooms, Bachelorette Parties and More

Alix Strauss, At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Visitors Enjoy the Music

Leslie Wayne, Short of Space, the Hispanic Society Museum Plans an Outpost in Spain

Annabel Keenan, The Stars of This Philadelphia Exhibition? Squirrels.

Morgan Malget and Abby McCarter, A Guide to U.S. Museum and Gallery Openings This Fall

Zachary Small, Urgent Funding Sought to Retrieve U.S. ‘Art Olympics’ Sculptures

Carolina A. Miranda, Will Heinrich, Dawn Chan and Travis Diehl, Art Gallery Shows to See in October

Jennifer Schuessler, National Constitution Center Names New Leader

Jason Farago and Daniel Terna, Taryn Simon Fills Guggenheim With Evidence in ‘Father Country I Do Love You’

Observer

Tamar Lortkipanidze, A Collector’s Guide to Bangkok’s Best Art Galleries

Gameli Hamelo, For Hassanein Hiridjee, Collecting Art Is a Commitment to Africa’s Future

Elisa Carollo, ICOM’s New Ethics Code Reconsiders What Museums Owe the Public

Christa Terry, Observer’s 2026 November Art Fair Calendar

T Magazine

EDITOR’S PICK - Julia Halperin, Where Is All the Art About War?: At a time of global conflict, institutions are shying away from the topic — and artists are struggling to show their work.

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The Art Newspaper

Simon Bainbridge, Photography as sculpture and an 800-page photobook on the Russia-Ukraine war: Deutsche Börse Prize nominees announced

Gareth Harris, ‘Colour, narrative, light’: London’s National Gallery to host largest ever exhibition devoted to Renaissance master Piero della Francesca

Stéphane Renault, Rudi Fuchs, influential Dutch curator and former director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, dies aged 84

Debika Ray, ‘There’s so much of Scotland in them’: cuts to Edinburgh College of Art craft degrees spark backlash

Martha Lufkin, Challenges mounting to US laws enacted to aid recovery of Nazi-looted art

Hannah Sage Kay, Getting ‘woo-woo’ in the desert: Los Angeles artist launches pirate radio station

Artforum

Anya Harrison, La mort du cygne: Dispatch from Paris Art Week

From the Editors, Pace Gallery Reports 35.5% Losses In Delayed 2024 Report

Lydia Eliza Trail, Down and Out in Fitzrovia and Holborn: Frieze Week’s “Alt” Program

From the Editors, 2,500-Year-Old Solar Observatory Discovered in Mexico

From the Editors, Toledo Museum of Art Launches Book Donation Initiative for African Libraries

From the Editors, Sandra Terdjman Named Bard’s Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Is London’s Serpentine Gallery Entering a Bold New Era?

Richard Whiddington, Are Museums Boring? Only a Little, Study Finds

Margaret Carrigan, Pace Gallery’s U.K. Arm Lost $5.4 Million in 2025, New Filings Reveal

Min Chen, This Tiny Fabergé Treasure Could Make a $1M Splash at Auction

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Steve McQueen Brings Nina Simone and David Bowie Together in an Unlikely Duet

ARTnews

Alex Greenberger, New York’s MTA Arts & Design Commissions Works from Ivan Forde, Trevor Paglen, and Howardena Pindell

Maximilíano Durón, Marian Goodman Gallery Hires Ebony L. Haynes as Senior Director, Announces Leadership Changes

Andy Battaglia, Opinion: As Federal Support for Culture Falls, We Need a New Generation of Giving

Alex Greenberger, At 96, Surrealist Painter Cossette Zeno Is Finally Having Her Moment

Daniel Cassady, World Monuments Fund Raises $62 M., Tripling Its Endowment Ahead of Schedule

Anne Doran, See the Official Trailer for “Dig,” Amy Pohler and Michael Schur’s New Comedy Series

Harrison Jacobs, Pace Reports $5.6 M. Loss for International Business, With Glimchers Pledging to Keep It Afloat

Maximilíano Durón, Leah Ke Yi Zheng Joins Antenna Space, Pérez Art Museum Miami to Honor Nicolas Berggruen, and More: Industry Moves for October 28, 2026

Maximilíano Durón, MSCHF Cofounder Lukas Bentel Leaves Viral Art Collective to Pursue Solo Work

Brian Boucher, London Falling? A New Report on Three Decades of the British Art Market Finds Its Growth Trailing Rival Hubs

EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Cassady, The Art Market Wanted to Go Global—It Didn’t Plan for Everything That Means: The world outside the fairgrounds isn’t always peaceful, predictable, or particularly interested in the needs of the art trade.

Andy Battaglia, LA Artist Snuck His Own Drawing onto the Met’s Walls and Filmed It

Daniel Cassady, Works From Agnes Gund’s Collection Head to Christie’s, Led by $8 M. Vija Celmins Painting

Devorah Lauter, Outsider Artist Josef Hofer, Whose Developmental Disability Made Him a Target in Nazi-Occupied Austria, Has Died at 80

ArtReview

Nirmala Devi, ‘Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA’, Reviewed

Louise Darblay, Liberté, Egalité, Absurdité

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, Jason Hirata, Park McArthur, A Porous Dialogue

From the Editors, Rudi Fuchs, former director of Stedelijk Museum, 1942–2026

Cultured

Keko Jackson, Jasminne Morataya, Brontez Purnell and Eileen Havant Townsend, The LA Dispatch: Milano Chow in a Frank Lloyd Wright Gem, a Group Show in a Secret Location, and More’

Sam Falb, This Installation Was Sent 5,000 Miles to Make a Point About African Architecture

Schuyler Daffy, How Does 74-Year-Old Painter Lari Pittman Work? ‘Monastically and Desperately and Cluelessly’

Financial Times

Alicia Clegg, Museums urged to boost sensory experiences for blind visitors

Caroline Roux, ‘They are an act of resistance’ — Tacita Dean on the works of Arte Povera artist Marisa Merz

The Guardian

Doosie Morris, Tiny basement turned ‘exuberant’ apartment wins interior prize at Australia’s National Architecture awards

Sarah Phillips, The rise and fall of mid-century modern: how millennials fell out of love with their favourite look

Eddy Frankel, Skulls, bulls and someone peeing in her own eye: four great exhibitions to see for free

Interview by Chris Broughton, The bare-handed beekeeper who looks like something out of The Odyssey: Holly Lynton’s best photograph

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, An Epstein Survivor’s Message for MoMA

Danielle Bensky, I’m an Epstein Survivor. MoMA Must Drop Leon Black.

Rhea Nayyar, Vatican Exhibition Series Centers “Fundamentally Human” Art Over AI

Maria Owen, Beverly Buchanan at the Raw Edge of Art

Max Blue, San Francisco’s Galleries Explore Alternative Routes for Survival

John Yau, Lisa Sanditz’s Seismic Sublime

Lily Kwak, Cici Wu’s Memory Lanterns

Tara Anne Dalbow, ​​Tacita Dean’s Truth in Materials

Anna Lee, Philadelphians to Vote on Permanent Arts and Culture Office on Election Day

The Los Angeles Times

Jane Horowitz, After his 99 Cents Only Store takeover, street artist Barry McGee takes over a gallery

The New York Times

Leslie Wayne, A New Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit Shows a World Beyond Flowers

Shivani Vora, A Large-Scale Manga Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum

Alina Tugend, Local Artists Speak to Baltimore’s Long and Complex History

Heather Kathryn Ross, A Museum Just for Latin American and Latino Art Celebrates 30 Years

Claudia Dreifus, A World War II Museum Brings the Lessons of War to a Younger Audience

Observer

Elisa Carollo, With FUZE, John Cox Is Carving Pathways Between the Caribbean’s Scenes and the Broader Art World

Elisa Carollo, Inside Dario Duran’s Initiative Connecting Iranian Artists to the Global Art World

Sam Moore, Artists Are Turning to Folklore to Make Sense of Technology

Sarah Moroz, At Fondation Louis Vuitton, Gustave Fayet Emerges as a Forerunner of the Modern Multi-Hyphenate

Puck

Marion Maneker, The W-Shaped Art Market

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Baseball-card painter thr33som3s stages his own Senate races before Election Day

Adam Schrader, Wolf Kahn Foundation announces centennial shows to elevate artist’s standing

The Wall Street Journal

Karen Wilkin, ‘Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450-1500’ Review: Magic in Metal

The Washington Post

Teniola Ayoola, A new Phillips Collection exhibition is a lesson in unpacking abstract art

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Apollo Magazine

Matthew Sperling, Impersonal effects: the crowded visions of L.S. Lowry

From the Editors, Lost worlds: Old Master shows to see in November

From the Editors, Apollo’s Agenda: museum shows to see in November

Lauren Kane, Inside the Grolier Club, a book lover’s paradise in Manhattan

Tom Hardwick, Beyond Bayeux: the complex history of art and diplomacy

Edward Behrens, The French restaurant that really does turn food into art

From the Editors, The halcyon days of China’s jewellery workshops

Stephen Patience, Henry Grant: the photographer who recorded the changing face of London

Michael Delgado, How the Hamburger Bahnhof became Berlin’s leading contemporary museum

From the Editors, In full bloom: Asian art shows to see in November

Isabella Smith, Top of the pots: inside Osaka’s world-class collection of ceramics

Zachary Ginsberg, What drove the first couple of Abstract Expressionism?

Irina Dumitrescu, The animal passions of Franz Marc

The Art Newspaper

Gabriella Angeleti, New $2.7m Getty grant initiative supports museums’ accessibility and engagement efforts

Allison C. Meier, ‘Encounter the unexpected’: Harry Houdini exhibition commemorates the famed illusionist on the centenary of his death

Riah Pryor, UK art market growth lags behind competitors, new report finds

Karen Chernick, Painting by overlooked Abstract Expressionist Anna Walinska gets key role in television series Best Medicine

Ben Luke, David Clack, Aimee Dawson, A brush with... Sung Tieu—podcast

EDITOR’S PICK - Sarp Kerem Yavuz, Comment | An open letter to Pope Leo XIV in defence of AI-generated art: The pontiff has been outspoken in his criticisms of artificial intelligence, particularly as it relates to human creativity

Artforum

From the Editors, V&A Workers Call Off Strike

Jordan Cronk, The Living and the Dead: Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love

From the Editors, AD-WO Wins Commission To Reimagine The Heinz Architectural Center

From the Editors, Art Basel Qatar Names Participants for 2027 Edition

From the Editors, Irini Papadimitriou Tapped to Lead 14th Seoul Mediacity Biennale

From the Editors, Odilon Redon Wall Sketches Discovered in French Abbey

Artnet

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint Goes to Paris: Inside Rick Owens’s Concrete Palace, the Grand Palais, and More!

Richard Whiddington, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Sublime Wooden Totems, Dies at 84

Richard Whiddington, Jodi the Nanotyrannus Nets $47.3M at Auction, Crushing Its Estimate

ARTnews

Leigh Anne Miller, 2,500-Year-Old Mesoamerican Observatory Discovered in Sierra Norte Mountains of Mexico

Maximilíano Durón, A Painting Owned by Dutch Jewish Collector Once Hung in Hitler’s Home, New Research Finds

Brian Boucher, Even German Bidders Can Now Pitch In to Support US Public Television, with the Country’s First Auction of a Bob Ross Painting

Andy Battaglia, Researchers Trace Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ to a Specific Dark Sky in 1889

Harrison Jacobs, Christie’s First Abu Dhabi Art Auction to Be Accompanied by Exhibition of 60M.–80 M. Kandinsky

Devorah Lauter, Auction of Nazi-Looted Torah Fragment Canceled After Outcry and Israeli Government Intervention

Anne Doran, Dutch Art Historian and Curator Rudi Fuchs Dies at 84

Hikmat Mohammed, Pace Gallery Reports Losses of 35.5 Percent for 2024 With ‘Real Change’ Underway

Brian Boucher, Christie’s Will Offer $8 M. in Works from Mickey Cartin’s Collection, from Netherlandish Painting to Contemporary Art to Rare Books

Alex Greenberger, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Gigantic Cedar Forms, Dies at 84

Maximilíano Durón, In a New Video, Mayor Mamdani Touts the Met Museum as an Early Voting Site

Devorah Lauter, Tatiana Trouvé’s Art Is All About Getting Lost and Found and Lost Again

Brian Boucher, A Women’s HBCU Will Sell a Record-Smashing Aaron Douglas Painting of Harriet Tubman to Support Women’s Health Programs

Daniel Cassady, Gagosian to Sell Works from Mr. Chow’s Art Collection, Including Paintings by Warhol, Basquiat, Hockney, and More

ArtReview

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, Jason Hirata, Park McArthur, A Porous Dialogue

From the Editors, Rudi Fuchs, former director of Stedelijk Museum, 1942–2026

Oliver Basciano, ‘The Death of the Clinic’ by Benoît Loiseau, Reviewed

Mark Rappolt, How to Conceal and Reveal with Arpita Shah

From the Editors, More departures at National Gallery Singapore

The Boston Globe

Mark Feeney, Somerville as state (and city) of photographic mind

Frieze

Christopher Whitfield, Bhenji Ra Learns to Dance in the Flames

Morgan Bassichis and Terence Trouillot, Morgan Bassichis and the Art of Necromancy

Mariana Fernández, Portia Zvavahera Paints What Dreams Remember

Wong Kit Yi, Frieze DJ in Residence: Wong Kit Yi

Wendy Vogel, Wong Kit Yi’s Outstanding Balance

Shiv Kotecha, Ana Vaz’s Camera Is a Body

Mira Dayal, How Howardena Pindell Set the Grid Free

Elizabeth Wiet , Yoo Hyun Mi and the Puzzle of Reality

Lou Stoppard, Why Are Novelists So Fascinated by Art?

Taous Dahmani, David Campany, Nadine Isabelle Henrich and Hoda Afshar, What Comes Next for Photography?

The Guardian

Adria R Walker, ‘Deceptively simple’: Gullah Geechee art exhibition illustrates that beauty lies in the details

Cheena Kapoor, How rebuilding old mosques is bringing Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims together in Punjab

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Remembering Ursula von Rydingsvard

Rhea Nayyar, The Artsiest Halloween Party in Town

Matt Stromberg, 10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This November

Rhea Nayyar, Artist Sneaks His Work Into the Met Museum

Armando Pulido, How Mexican Photographers Made a Nation

Cristiana Grigore, In Battle Over Auschwitz Watercolors, Roma Victims Are Getting Left Behind

Anna Lee, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Who Sculpted Monuments of Cedar, Dies at 84

Dyani White Hawk, Layli Long Soldier’s Poetic Lifeblood

The New York Times

Michael Kimmelman, Can We Make a Dent in the Housing Crisis? Two Projects Say Yes.

Ivan Nechepurenko and Michael Kimmelman, Rare Wartime Dissent in Moscow Over Plans to Dismantle Russia’s ‘Eiffel Tower’

John Hanc, The Photographers Who Helped Turn Marilyn Monroe Into a Global Star

Rebecca L. Davis, The Foundational Feminist Marianne Wex Takes Her Place at MoMA

Ted Loos, Rural Get-Togethers Celebrate Art and America’s 250th Anniversary

Hilarie M. Sheets, Alex Da Corte Takes On Roy Lichtenstein and Marisol

Sam Lubell, How a Walmart Heir Is Transforming Rural Arkansas Into a Design Powerhouse

Tas Tóbiás, In Vienna, a Celebration of Handmade Ceramics and Iconic Austrian Design

Suleman Anaya, Su Wu Celebrates Her Book “Mesoamerican Modern” at Mexico City’s Casa Möbius

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Sotheby’s Sells “Jodi” the Nanotyrannus for $47.3 Million, Reigniting the Fossil

Ownership Debate

Tamar Lortkipanidze, Horror’s Lost Masterpieces Are Ready for a Revival

Elisa Carollo, How the Bangkok Art Biennale Helped Shape Thailand’s Expanding Scene

Siddhant Adlakha, Sandra Wollner’s ‘Everytime’ Considers the Afterlife in the Context of Digital Memory

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Museum of Sex brings show on sex, life and death to Miami

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The Art Newspaper

Anna Brady, Downsizing and debt swaps: Pace Gallery files latest UK accounts

Gameli Hamelo, Toledo Museum of Art launches initiative to donate art books to African libraries

Kabir Jhala, Art Basel Qatar releases 2027 exhibitor list as renewed threat of war looms over Gulf

Gareth Harris, Fake or Fortune art historian donates major Anglo-Indian art collection to Tate

Artforum

From the Editors, “Guaranteed to Sell”: $80 Million Klimt Landscape Heads to Auction

From the Editors, Tate Britain Receives Gift Of 50 Works By Artists Who Lived And Worked In South Asia

From the Editors, National Gallery Singapore Rocked by High-Level Departures

From the Editors, Astronomers Propose New Date for Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Based on the Actual Night Sky

From the Editors, Hundreds Protest The Closure Of Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum

From the Editors, Róng Museum of Art Appoints Curatorial Team

Nolan Kelly, The Case for Corny: a week at the Museum of Modern Art with Pageant

Theo Belci, From the Archive: Steve Reich at Ninety

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel Qatar Returns With 82 Galleries, Courts New Collectors

Ben Davis, MSCHF Co-Founder Goes Solo

Anna Sui, Anna Sui on the Psychedelic Art That Rocked Her World

Richard Whiddington, A Small But Mighty Tiffany Lamp Illuminates the Auction Block

Tim Brinkhof, The Great Modigliani Sculpture Hoax of 1984

Margaret Carrigan, Tate Receives a Major Gift of South Asian Artworks

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, Hillary Clinton Visits Yayoi Kusama Sculptures on Naoshima Island Ahead of 37th Praemium Imperiale Awards Ceremony

Hikmat Mohammed, Art Basel Qatar Returns for Second Edition With 82 Galleries Under Artistic Direction of Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Aims to ‘Deepen Collector Relationships’

Tessa Solomon, Jogen Chowdhury, ‘Towering Pillar’ of Indian Modern Art, Has Died at 87

Leigh Anne Miller, Two Top Executives Leave National Gallery of Singapore Amid Staff Shakeup

Daniel Cassady, Bill Koch to Sell More Than $40 M. in Art at Christie’s, Led by Monet and Cezanne Paintings

Tessa Solomon, V&A Union Suspend Planned Strikes after Management Delivers New Offers

Daniel Cassady, Friedel Dzubas Dreamed of Showing His Paintings in a Church—Now He Has His Wish

Maximilíano Durón, Milwaukee Art Museum Receives $10 M. Gift to Preserve Santiago Calatrava–Designed Building

Andy Battaglia, Scientists Say They’ve Rediscovered How the Romans Made the British Museum’s Color-Shifting Lycurgus Cup

Tessa Solomon, ‘Desiring Machines’ Dares Us to Imagine a Healthy Relationship with Technology

Maximilíano Durón, Whitney Museum Hires Nolan Jimbo as Associate Curator

Daniel Cassady, R.M. Schindler’s Modernist Beach House, Built for a California Health Nut, Hits the Market for a Breezy $18.8 Million

Harrison Jacobs, Italian Carabinieri Are Training Professionals Across Africa to Stop Antiquities Trafficking

ArtReview

Digby Warde-Aldam, Agata Bogacka’s Tortured Symbolism

Greta Rainbow, Tam Ochiai: Free Market Iconography

Frieze

From the Editors, What’s on at No.9 Cork Street This November

Ivana Cholakova, The Best Shows to See During Artissima 2026

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, LS Lowry review – matchstick men, or the broken denizens of a smog-filled hellscape?

Matthew Weaver, Unions suspend planned V&A strike after improved pay offer

Alessandro Gandolfi, Protests, tourists and the Kremlin: Georgia at a crossroads – photo essay

Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic, The Gospel According to Paul Pfeiffer

Rhea Nayyar, Lula Victory Memes That Make Us All Want to Be Brazilian

David S. Rubin, At 60, a Legendary LA Print Workshop Still Urges Us to Pay Attention

Brian Karl, Paul Pfeiffer on the Spectacle of Politics

Rebecca Schiffman, Nathan Fielder Is a Performance Artist in Disguise

Anna Lee, Giant Ofrenda Arrives in Manhattan Ahead of Día de Muertos

Anna Lee, Mamdani Votes Early at The Met. What Other NYC Museums Are Polling Sites?

John Yau, John Dilg’s Down-to-Earth Reverence

Brian Karl, The Artist Who Dined Among Lions

The Los Angeles Times

Sam Lubell, One of the greatest museum artifacts ever is at L.A.’s $450 million Air and Space center

The New York Times

Will Heinrich, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Monumental Forms, Dies at 84

Shivani Vora, A Showcase of Works by the Designer Gio Ponti in New York

Fahima Haque, A New Exhibition Focuses on Ragtime at the Morgan Library & Museum

Megan McCrea and Amanda Villarosa, The Denver Art Museum Explores the Diva Universe

Ken Belson, Across the U.S., Neon Signs Are Being Celebrated at Museums and Parks

Michael Janofsky, The Science Behind Your Reaction to Art

Claudia Dreifus, A World War II Museum Brings the Lessons of War to a Younger Audience

Ted Loos, Elaine de Kooning Gets Her Time in the Spotlight

Laurel Graeber, A Conceptual Artist Makes Frankenstein’s Monster Sing

Observer

Elisa Carollo, A Roman Imperial Torso Set a New Antiquities Record at Sotheby’s as the Art World Looked Elsewhere

Jonathan Mallie, From Stadium to City, The Next Frontier in Venue Design Is Everything Around the Building

John Scott Lewinski, In Milwaukee, a Smaller Art Market Belies a Strong Cultural Community

EDITOR’S PICK - Suzanne Swarts, To Succeed, Museums Must Capture Attention Online and Cultivate It Offline: The Dutch institution Museum Voorlinden has created a program designed to train attention rather than fragment it. Its director explains why limiting spectacle has become essential.

Elisa Carollo, Despite a Turbulent Art Week, the Paris Auctions Delivered Stellar Results

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, The A.I. an artist calls his brother questions its own artistic credit

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, Walid Raad’s Way of Working Is Inspired by the Mirrors in Vampire Movies

The Art Newspaper

Sarvy Geranpayeh, V&A proposing significant cuts to its academy amid financial pressures

Anna Brady, Museum acquisitions round-up: a Joan Jonas dance performance and a squirrelly readymade

Florence Hallett, Art Povera’s Marisa Merz honoured with trio of Turin shows

Senay Boztas, Pop-up tattoo studio opens at Amsterdam’s Rembrandt House Museum

Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, 2,500-year-old solar observatory identified in Mexico

Carlie Porterfield, Houston cancer centre expands its art collection and curatorial ambitions

Artnet

Min Chen, Klimt Landscape That Once Made Auction History Could Net $80M at Christie’s

Sonia Manalili, Monet Madness in France

Richard Whiddington, Monet, Warhol Headline Sotheby’s First Art Auction in Abu Dhabi

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, Former Presidents Obama, Clinton Mock Trump’s White House Interiors With Comparisons to ‘Saddam Hussein’ and ‘Liberace’s Bathroom’

Hikmat Mohammed, Sotheby’s Deepens Abu Dhabi Relationship With Inaugural Fine Art Auction in December

Maximilíano Durón, An Abbey in France Discovered Previously Unknown Wall Sketches by Odilon Redon

Brian Boucher, Christie’s Brings a Blockbuster Klimt Landscape to Auction, Tagged at $80 M. and Guaranteed to Sell

Hikmat Mohammed, 50 Artworks by Artists Who Lived and Worked in India Gifted to the Tate

Brian Boucher, In a Historic Blunder, Wu-Tang Clan Sold an Album as a Unique Artwork—A New Doc Tells the Story of an Architect of the Sale

Leigh Anne Miller, Prized Monet Paintings at the Center of Milwaukee Art Museum and MFA St. Petersburg’s World Series Wager

Tessa Solomon, Monument to Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Near Quantico Vandalized

Harrison Jacob, Artist Duo Brognon Rollin Awarded 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s Top Art Prize

Anne Doran, Korean Culture Ministry to Audit Former Director of the National Museum

Andy Battaglia, Paul Stankard, Renowned Glass Paperweight Artist, Dead at 83

Hikmat Mohammed, Louvre, Picasso Museum, Musée d’Orsay Will Close Saturday In Anticipation of Hard-Left Groups Targeting Public Buildings, Says Interior Minister

Brian Boucher, Comcast Cofounder Gives $20 M. to Philadelphia Museum of Art, One of its Largest Gifts, To Greatly Expand Education Spaces

Financial Times

EDITOR’S PICK - Melanie Gerlis, Riots brought Art Basel Paris to a close — is it a sign of things to come?: Gallerists are bracing themselves for operating in a world of escalating tensions — and collectors are increasingly attuned to the risks.

Constance Ayrton, Six makers ‘challenging what’s possible’ at Design Doha

Josh Spero, More than 1mn antiquities returned to countries of origin

Gazelle Mba, Jordan Casteel on the art of being seen

Lucy Davies, Adolphe de Meyer’s Venice palazzo of dreams

Frieze

Lisette May Monroe, Sophie Calle Edits Her Own Myth

Christopher Alessandrini, FotoFocus Biennial Entangles the Hyperlocal and the Global

The Guardian

Rachel Hall, Bayeux tapestry becomes pop culture hit as young people more keen to see exhibition than top films

Hyperallergic

Zoe Cooper, Artists Take to the Streets Amid Massive Protests in France

Hakim Bishara, This Is Class War

Naima Morelli, Portrait of a Paris Art Week on Fire

Duaa Shaa, How Art Can Deliver Justice for Refugees

Martha Wilson, The War on Art Is Repeating Itself

Rhea Nayyar, Kid Cudi to Write, Direct, and Star as Basquiat in New Biopic

Neil Price, The Center Cannot Hold at the Toronto Biennial

Anna Lee, Scientists Contest Dating of Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”

The Los Angeles Times

Elitsa Gadeva and Sylvie Corbet, Louvre and other museums closing for Saturday protests as French authorities deploy 70,000 officers

The New Yorker

Rebecca Mead, The Victoria & Albert Museum Expands, Twice

Observer

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Carsten Höller, Two” at Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Christa Terry, Between Blue-Chip Sculpture and Homespun Art, Grand Rapids Is Finding Its Voice

Elisa Carollo, How a Paris Art Collective Turned Squatting into a Sustainable Model of Artistic Production

Elisa Carollo, Emily Mae Smith Paints Worlds on the Edge of Transformation

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Haas Brothers, Uncanny Valley” at the Blanton Museum of Art

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, My arrest at Standing Rock, ten years later

Adam Schrader, Immersive tech and A.I. fuel a rise in participatory art

The Wall Street Journal

William Meyers, ‘Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography’ Review: A City Through Many Lenses

Brian P. Kelly, ‘Pioneers in Hand Papermaking: 50 Years of Innovation at Dieu Donné’ Review: Unfolding a Material’s Potential

Lance Esplund, ‘Self-Portrait, Age 23’: Rembrandt’s Personal, Painterly Revelations

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, How Did ‘American Gothic’ Become So Iconic? This Art Historian Spent Five Decades Investigating.

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin win the Prix Marcel Duchamp

Ben Luke, David Clack and Alexander Morrison, Art Basel Paris opens and closes amid protests, Latin American culture wars, a Chinese celestial map—podcast

Anna Sansom, What to expect from Centre Pompidou’s vast new conservation-focused site in the Parisian suburbs

Martin Bailey, Newly identified: the most expensive Van Gogh was once owned by a highly distinguished early collector

Elena Goukassian, Alison Kuo’s homage to Cantonese opera at the New Museum

Gareth Harris, October Book Bag: from Taryn Simon’s intriguing Guggenheim installation catalogue to a publication about Hans Arp’s paper sculptures

Gareth Harris, Art Basel Paris to close early due to protests

Artforum

From the Editors, $34.3 Million Marble Torso Sets Roman Antiquity Record at Sotheby’s

From the Editors, Miami Beach’s Bass Museum Unveils Expansion Plans

Lydia Eliza Traill, An Englishwoman in New York: Notes from Downtown

From the Editors, Quebec Museum Welcomes Pavilion Devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle

From the Editors, Rauschenberg Foundation Publishes Digital Catalogue Raisonné

From the Editors, Art Basel Paris Ends Early, Fondation Louis Vuitton Shutters as Protests Loom

From the Editors, New York Public Library Acquires Collection of Kiki Smith Prints

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Barbara Hepworth Dominates at Christie’s $30M British and Irish Art Evening Sale

Andrew Russeth, 5 Thrilling Artworks and Shows From a Heady, Fraught Art Basel Paris

Sonia Manalili, Back to the Culture Wars

Richard Whiddington, This Kandinsky Work Is Primed to Shatter the Artist’s Record

Richard Whiddington, Monet’s Long-Hidden ‘Iris’ Blooms to Record $56.2M at Auction

Richard Whiddington, $34.3M Roman Marble Busts Through Antiquity Record at Sotheby’s

Margaret Carrigan, Paris Auction Houses Turn Up the Heat

Katya Kazakina, Art Basel Paris to Close Early in Face of Weekend Protests

ARTnews

EDITOR’S PICK - Devorah Lauter, As Art Basel Paris Shutters for Weekend Protests, Satellite Fairs Keep Their Doors Open: Here are some highlights from some of the smaller fairs all around Paris, and how they are responding to Saturday’s planned protests.

Tessa Solomon, Louvre Heist Suspect Denied Release As Investigators Unravel Tangled Testimonies

Daniel Cassady, Monet Painting Sells for $56.2 M., Setting French Auction Record at Sotheby’s Paris

Daniel Cassady, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Sells for $8.3 M., Leading Christie’s London Auction

Anne Doran, Turkish Authorities Seize 2000-Year-Old Marble Head of Zeus

Brian Boucher, An $80 M. Kandinsky, Once Owned by the Guggenheim, Is Guaranteed to Beat a Record at Christie’s

Tessa Solomon, Mystery Skeleton in Roman Sarcophagus Beneath Westminster Abbey May Be a Medieval Abbot, Study Says

Alex Greenberger, Dealers Scramble to Get Works Out of Paris After Surprise Art Basel Announcement

Hikmat Mohammed, Questions Raised Over Maintenance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home After Death

Maximilíano Durón, With Her Miu Miu Commission in Paris, Filmmaker Alice Diop Offers a Much-Needed Space for Healing

Hikmat Mohammed, Three Paul Cézanne Paintings Pulled From Sotheby’s Schlumberger Evening Sale

Andy Battaglia, Historic Globe Used by Dwight D. Eisenhower Broken by Pete Hegseth’s Staff

Brian Boucher, Revised Tidal Basin Plans Scrutinized as Potential Backdoor for Trump’s Controversial Garden of American Heroes

Alex Greenberger, Glasgow Museum Removes Mummified Head ‘as a Mark of Respect,’ Prompting Conservative Backlash

Leigh Anne Miller, Kid Cudi to Play Basquiat in ‘JEAN,’ Biopic He’ll Also Write and Direct

Alex Greenberger, Ancient Torso Statue Sells for $34.3 M. at Sotheby’s, a Record for a Roman Antiquity

Devorah Lauter, Art Basel Paris and Fondation Louis Vuitton to Close on Saturday Ahead of Protests

ArtReview

Gee Wesley, Pap Souleye Fall’s Glitch in the System

From the Editors, Brognon Rollin wins 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp

From the Editors, Irini Papadimitriou to lead 14th Seoul Mediacity Biennale

Fi Churchman, The Gut Instinct of Photography

Mark Rappolt, The British Art Show 10 Review: Polite Fury

From the Editors, Art Basel Paris 2026 to close early amidst French unrest

The Boston Globe

Murray Whyte, From modern to now: ICA’s 90-year journey through art

Murray Whyte, Don’t be deceived by the gentle beauty of Suzanne Jackson’s colorful art. More lies beneath.

Malcolm Gay, In Fitchburg, a four-year-long celebration of a big birthday

Financial Times

En Liang Kong, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is a jewel box of a show

From the Editors, The best art exhibitions to see in London right now

Frieze

Madeleine Seidel, Cici Wu’s Lanterns Flicker in the Mind’s Eye

Christopher Alessandrini, The Hyperlocal and the Global Are Entangled in the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial

David Salle, What Happens When David Salle Lets AI into the Studio?

David Greaves and Abirami Logendran, ‘Go with the Genius’: David Greaves on Capturing the Harlem Renaissance

The Guardian

Simon Jenkins, Hammersmith Bridge is a symbol of our dysfunctional times. The money is there, the joined-up thinking isn’t | Simon Jenkins

Jonathan Jones, Lowry kicks off, pop goes kinky and the wild man of Florence is tamed – the week in art

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Au Revoir, Art Basel Paris

Valentina Di Liscia, Studio Museum Announces New Artists-in-Residence

Leah Triplett Harrington, When Does a Woman Artist Reach Her “Prime”?

Rhea Nayyar, Louvre Among Major Paris Museums to Shutter During Saturday Protests

Sophia Lebowitz, Meet the Painter Adorning Phoebe Bridgers’s Guitars

Anna Lee, Shuttering Early, Art Basel Paris Also Removes Public Sculptures

Ed Simon, The Cathedral of Learning Is Pittsburgh’s Secular Temple

Anna Lee, Art Basel Paris to Close Two Days Early, Citing Protests

The New York Times

Scott Reyburn, Monet Painting Sells for $56 Million in France

Will Heinrich, Dawn Chan, Jillian Steinhauer and Travis Diehl, Art Gallery Shows to See in October

Scott Reyburn, Art Basel Paris to End Early Because of France Riots

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Alfredo Jaar On America, the Concentration of Power and the Art of Staying Awake

Sarah Moroz, Curator Catherine Nichols’s Lyon Biennale Turns the City’s Trading Past Into a Poetic Framework

Elisa Carollo, Amid Protests and an Early Closure Announcement, Art Basel Paris Finds Buyers for Its Safest Bets

Urgent Matter

Adan Schrader, Transcript: Cold Take Ep. 17 on Dino Mommy, Titanic Artifacts and the Pope on A.I. Art

The Wall Street Journal

Stephanie Williams, Folger exhibition explores Black women’s 400-year relationship with Shakespeare

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The Art Newspaper

Kaisse Sokrane, Could proposed bill give the French state too much control over privately owned art?

Anzhela Khachaturova, Anselm Kiefer painting too large to exhibit gets its own David Chipperfield pavilion

EDITOR’S PICK - Georgina Adam, Rioting does not deter big-ticket sales at Art Basel Paris: A flurry of seven- and eight-figure works were snapped up on the opening days of the fair

Hadani Ditmars, Québec museum opens $61m pavilion celebrating renowned artist Jean Paul Riopelle

Gabriella Angeleti, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West closes after visitor killed by wind-blown debris

Garry Shaw, Comment | Seabed heritage is facing catastrophic destruction on multiple fronts

Douglas Markowitz, Miami dealer sentenced to almost 4 years in prison for selling fake Warhols

Gareth Harris and Anny Shaw, Art Basel Paris dispatch: what to see beyond the fair this week

Artforum

From the Editors, A New South Asian Arts Festival Comes To London

From the Editors, Florida Heat Melts Metal Statue of Ron DeSantis

From the Editors, Art Basel Paris Opens Behind Anti-Ram Barriers

From the Editors, Protest Draws Hundreds In Support Of A Colombian Museum

From the Editors, FOG Design+Art Names Exhibitors for 2027 Fair

From the Editors, Chinese Terracotta Army Built by Women and Children, Not Only Men

Artnet

Katya Kazakina, Will Paris Art Fairs Shutter for Saturday’s Protests? Watch This Space

Richard Whiddington, Robert Rauschenberg’s Epic Digital Catalogue Raisonné Is Here

Richard Whiddington, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Planetarium Reopens After Major Restoration

Kim Córdova, Colombia’s President Declared a Culture War. The National Museum Is the First Casualty

ARTnews

Brian Boucher, New York Public Library Gets Over 250 Kiki Smith Prints, a Gift from the Artist’s Sister Seton Smith

Alex Greenberger, Elisa Nuyten’s Vega Foundation Is Quietly Reshaping the World of Moving-Image Art

Brian Boucher, New York Public Library Gets Over 250 Kiki Smith Prints, a Gift from the Artist’s Sister Seton Smith

Maximilíano Durón, The Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, From Tar Paintings to a Falling Knife

Tessa Solomon, Florentina Holzinger Is Closing Out ‘Seaworld Venice’ With a ‘Final Dinner’ Made From Bodily Waste

Brian Boucher, Condemning Violent Protestors, Alicja Kwade to Remove Art Basel Paris Public Sculpture Early

Brian Boucher, What’s Selling at Art Basel Paris? Reported Sales Top Out at $10 M. for a Richter and a Baselitz

Tessa Solomon, V&A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay, Conditions

Daniel Cassady, Melting Ron DeSantis Statue Makes a Point About Climate Change in Florida

Harrison Jacobs, Artists John Akomfrah, Ben Rivers, and Dozens Others Defend Sally Rooney in Open Letter

Anne Doran, National Museum of Korea Director Offers to Resign

Daniel Cassady, Chanel Becomes Lead Sponsor of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum in Expanded Three-Year Deal

Sarah Belmont, The Best Works at Art Basel Paris’s Public Program, From a Crowd of TV Screens to a Flock of Plush Animals

Maximilíano Durón, Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center to Launch Native Artist Residency with Walker Youngbird Foundation

Andy Battaglia, NFL COLOR FIELD Program to Debut With Jammie Holmes Artwork Before First Football Game in France

Brian Boucher, Eli in Paris: The Fondation Louis Vuitton Will Mount a Giant Show of the Broad Collection Next Year

Harrison Jacobs and Alex Greenberger, Jeff Koons Talks AI, a $100 M. Modigliani in Paris, and More: Industry Moves for October 21, 2026

Hikmat Mohammed, London’s National Gallery to Exhibit 40 Works, From Rembrandt to René Magritte

Leigh Anne Miller, Youthful Edward Hopper Oil Paintings Revealed to Be Copies of Other Artists’ Work

Tessa Solomon, Basquiat’s Long-Unseen Riff on Leonardo da Vinci to Lead Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale with $30 M. Estimate

Alex Greenberger, Düsseldorf Galleries Sign Open Letter Against Far-Right Political Party’s Attempts to ‘Co-Opt’ Joseph Beuys

Tessa Solomon, Theaster Gates Returned a David Drake Jar to His Descendants—It’s Now on View at a Virginia HBCU

ArtReview

Gaby Cepeda, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol: Picture a Scene

Hana Elhaddad, Salzburger Kunstverein x ArtReview Writers Residency: Hana Elhaddad

Jenny Wu, Jutta Koether: Is Painting an Abandoned Building?

From the Editors, Vasyl Cherepanyn looks east for his Berlin Biennale

Financial Times

Edwin Heathcote, Walter Hood is reshaping the American cityscape

Francesca Perry, Objects With Narratives begins a new chapter in Antwerp

Frieze

Alice Godwin, Anette Gellein Gives Queer Rebirth a Violent Edge

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, The joy of strap-ons, Sherman’s plump pearls and a hypnotic apocalypse: five free exhibitions to see

Lyndsey Winship, Proms, parties and gender politics: amazing photos from American dancefloors – and what they tell us about a changing nation

Chris Broughton, A grieving female elephant carrying a stillborn baby: Federico Veronesi’s best photograph

Eddy Frankel, Why has a crumbling bottle plant been rebuilt in Paris? The stunning show suggesting the future is Ghana-shaped

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, French Students Take to the Monuments

Anna Lee, The French Student Protesters Subverting Monuments Like It’s May 68

Laura June Kirsch, The Rise and Fall of My Wikipedia Page

Eliza Swann, Spirits Against the Patriarchy

Rhea Nayyar, Is Germany’s Far-Right AfD Co-Opting Joseph Beuys?

Anna Lee, Man Killed by Falling Debris at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Arizona Home

Lisa Yin Zhang, Peter Nagy, Artist and Gallerist Who Shaped Two Art Scenes, Dies at

66

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Ilana Savdie and Chaïm Soutine Shed the Skin

Natalie Haddad, “Costume Art” Is a Bad Look for The Met

The New York Times

Jennifer Schuessler, Bumped From the National Mall, Smithsonian Folklife Fest Hit the Road

Suleman Anaya, Su Wu Celebrates Her Book “Mesoamerican Modern” at Mexico City’s Casa Möbius

Deborah Solomon, If You Think You Know Brancusi’s Sculptures, Step Into His Studio

Blake Gopnik, Siena and the Art of What Lies Behind

Gisela Williams, Amsterdam’s Drift Museum Is a New Place to Experiment With Light and Form

Observer

Bob Jeffrey, Why Concerned Photography Is More Important Than Ever

Sarah Moroz, What Can the ’90s Tell Us About Today? Tate Britain Isn’t Sure

Elisa Carollo, Large Opens on Île Seguin With a Focus on French Art in All Its Forms

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Ex-Michaels worker says her job was cut the day after her disability accommodation ended

Adam Schrader, Court Docs: Ex-Michaels worker says her job was cut the day after disability accommodation ended

The Wall Street Journal

Eric Gibson, ‘Rediscovering Della Robbia at the Met’ Review: Generations of Florentine Genius

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Art in America

Andy Battaglia, Five Essential Books About Pop Art

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris and Anny Shaw, Art Basel Paris dispatch: what to see beyond the fair this week

EDITOR’S PICK - Alexander Herman, Comment | How do we protect artists from gallery insolvency?: A recent spate of closures has led to calls for legislation—but education is important, too

Ben Luke, David Clack, and Aimee Dawson, A brush with… George Shaw—podcast

Mercedes Ezquiaga, Hundreds protest far-right government’s removal of objects from Colombia’s national museum

Robert Hewison, Will the real Arts Council England please stand up? A new book tells an incomplete history of the funding organisation

José da Silva, An expert’s guide to Frida Kahlo: five must-read books on the Mexican Surrealist

Alina Cohen, Giant mirrored globe will rise on Miami Beach during art week

Annabel Keenan, Found objects and fall-outs: a new book reveals new sides to Donald Judd and his work

Artforum

From the Editors, Emer Grant Appointed Inaugural Creative Director of Liverpool’s Bluecoat

From the Editors, Hélia Paukner Named Artistic Director of Biennale de Lyon

From the Editors, Design Academy Eindhoven Students Protest Overcrowded Work Spaces

From the Editors, Anselm Kiefer’s Massive Painting Is Finally On View

From the Editors, Edward Hopper’s Early Oils Found to Be Copies of Other Artists

From the Editors, The Broad Museum Will Go To Paris Ahead of $100 Million Expansion

Artnet

Artnet Gallery Network, How Gershon Iskowitz Forged His Own Path to Abstraction

Min Chen, Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning Meet Again

Richard Whiddington, 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography’s First Human Subjects Solved

Andrew Russeth, Art Basel Paris Comes Out Swinging With $100M-Plus Modigliani, Big-Dollar Sales

Richard Whiddington, The Broad Is Sending Its Art Treasures Across the Atlantic

Richard Whiddington, Rare Flock of Lalanne Sheep Could Round Up $5M at Auction

ARTnews

Anne Doran, Can AI Help Identify the Sitters in Historical Portraits?

Maximilíano Durón, Rosana Paulino’s Pantheon of Black Plant Goddesses Arrives in Paris

Harrison Jacobs, Art Basel Paris Opens Avant Première with ‘Good Energy,’ a Smattering of Sales, and One $100 M. Work

Anne Doran, National Museum of Korea Director Apologizes for Misattribution of a Work on Display

John Yan, James Gibson’s Cultural and Spiritual Legacy Lives on in His Sculptures

Andy Battaglia, Jenny Holzer on Paris Protests: ‘It’s Gruesome That Kids Have to Fight for a Better Education’

Brian Boucher, Donors Are Secretly Trying to Save the Kennedy Center’s Artworks from ‘Destruction’ or Disposal Amid Trump Takeover

Alex Greenberger, What’s Up with Elizabeth Holmes’s Weird Norman Rockwell–Inspired Background on X?

Alex Greenberger, New York’s Canada Gallery Faced Threat of Dissolution After Backer’s Lawsuits, Court Documents Show

Daniel Cassady, Experts Call for Indigenous Artifacts in Canadian Tycoon’s Collection to Be Repatriated

ArtReview

From the Editors, Hélia Paukner to direct macLYON and Lyon Biennale

From the Editors, Liverpool’s Bluecoat names first creative director

Declan Long, What Do We Miss About the Slacker Years?

Financial Times

Josh Spero, Do memorials belong in train stations?

Frieze

Alice Godwin, Anette Gellein Gives Queer Rebirth a Violent Edge

From the Editors, The 2026 Toronto Biennial Makes Sense of Rupture and Return

From the Editors, Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt Question the Role of Monuments in Society

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, Why has a crumbling bottle plant been rebuilt in Paris? The stunning show suggesting the future is Ghana-shaped

Owen Myers, Cyndi Lauper on fun, fashion and freedom of expression: ‘We have braces on our brains’

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, The Art World Has an AI Problem

Rhea Nayyar, Live From the Lavender Lake

Valentina Di Liscia, Dear Art World, We Can Tell When You’re Using AI

Natalie Jenkins, Bathing With the Nymphs

Aaron Short, Sunset Park, Where You Can Still Get an Artist Studio for Under $600

Rhea Nayyar, V&A Museum Staff Set to Strike Across All Four London Sites

Anna Lee, The MIT Professors Bedazzling Security Cameras to Highlight Campus Surveillance

Anna Lee, Art Basel Paris Undergoes Lockdown Ahead of Opening

Dan Schindel, To Be Alone With Your Thoughts in ‘70s New York

The Los Angeles Times

Tara Anne Dalbow, Reggie Burrows Hodges prefers to disappear. Now his art and music are everywhere in L.A.

The New York Times

Scott Reyburn, Art Basel Paris Preview Draws Interest Despite Protests

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Observer’s Guide to the Must-See Paris Art Week Shows

Elisa Carollo, Inside Karim Crippa’s Vision for an Even More Parisian Art Basel Paris

Elisa Carollo, Paris Internationale, Asia Now and Post-Fair Open the City’s Art Week on a Confident Note

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, German city keeps Tim Bengel’s devil sculpture after vandals deface it

Adam Schrader, Buy a $325 print, plant 165 trees: Artist hides prayers under gold to fund forests

Adam Schrader, Prado VR show ‘Masterpieces’ takes visitors inside paintings that can’t leave Madrid

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The Art Newspaper

Annabel Keenan, Found objects and fall-outs: a new book reveals new sides to Donald Judd and his work

Joe Ware, Major London museums join forces for new South Asian arts festival

Catherine Hickley, Legal troubles and family feud keep Klimt portrait off the market

Debika Ray, What does an Old Master smell like? Meet the perfumer commissioned by Sotheby’s

Louis Shadwick, All six of Edward Hopper’s early oils, long thought to be original works, revealed to be copies

Anna Brady, Hilma af Klint painting could break artist’s record next month in Stockholm

From the Editors, Before banana fame, Maurizio Cattelan made ends meet delivering letters—and sperm

From the Editors, Jewellers Buccellati create collection inspired by Venetian lace-making

Maev Kennedy, Exhibition highlights overlooked William Morris collection and his collaborations with women makers

Dale Berning Sawa, As France is rocked by explosive protests, art school students have their say

Gareth Harris, British Museum’s Red Ball sparks Energy Embargo for Palestine protests

Artforum

From the Editors, Abu Dhabi Reveals Plans For A New Cultural District Ahead Of Frieze Art Fair

From the Editors, Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Francis Bacon Awards

From the Editors, Art Basel Will Remain in Miami Beach After Threatening to Decamp to Vegas

From the Editors, British Museum to Receive $40 Million Gift for Masterplan Project

From the Editors, Protesters in France Block Entrance to Louvre

From the Editors, Visitor Dies in Freak Accident at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West

Alex Jovanovich, From the Archive: Anne Carson on Sophie Calle

Artnet

Richard Whiddington, Rare Flock of Lalanne Sheep Could Round Up $5M at Auction

Caroline Goldstein, Unseen Picassos Could Fetch $42M at Auction

Katya Kazakina, Art Meets Couture in a Dazzling Valentino and Ewa Juszkiewicz Exhibition

Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel Wins Miami Beach Rent Cut After Threatening Vegas Move

ARTnews

Harrison Jacobs, Collector Libbie Mugrabi Faces New Legal Battle Over 1982 Basquiat to Satisfy $2.3 M. Judgment

EDITOR’S PICK - Annika Svendsen Finne, 5 Pro Tips For Conserving Your Art Collection: A conservation studio offers guidance for caring for your collection.

Maximilíano Durón, Fondation Louis Vuitton Reunites Hundreds of Masterpieces Once Owned by One France’s Most Important, Though Now Forgotten, Collectors

Alex Greenberger, Prairie, Chicago Gallery That Put Conceptualism Ahead of Commercialism, Closes After Nearly a Decade

Leigh Anne Miller, Bayeux Tapestry Display to Change Upon Return to Normandy Next Year

Andy Battaglia, Protests Erupt Over Removal of LGBTQ and Feminist Objects at National Museum of Colombia

Brian Boucher, New York’s Massey Klein Gallery Closes Its Doors and Goes Nomadic After Nine Years

Tessa Solomon, Zohran Mamdani Spends a Birthday to Remember at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Hikmat Mohammed, Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards

Brian Boucher, Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas

Maximilíano Durón, An Eva Gonzalès Retrospective Puts the Non-Impressionist Artist Back on the Map

Devorah Lauter, Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France

ArtReview

From the Editors, The Interview: Sheila Hicks

From the Editors, Portraits in Philanthropy: Vignesh Sundaresan

From the Editors, Student protests close Louvre

Financial Times

Melanie Gerlis, A lively Frieze Week has London gallerists dreaming of a Brexit U-turn

Frieze

Andrew Hodgson, The Best Exhibitions to See in Paris

Zoë Hopkins, Beyond the Limits of Representation at the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art

The Guardian

Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan, ‘If the lion does not tell its story, the hunter will’: a century of thrilling Cameroonian art

Oliver Wainwright, The CO2-absorbing building made of old sinks, windscreens and toilets: Ghent’s £17m design museum is a green marvel

Charlotte Jansen, Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography review – a rhapsodic show to stop you in your tracks

Jonathan Jones, Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji review – sublime wonders from the Great Wave to that heroic, eternal peak

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Paris Students Shut Down the Louvre

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Art Books on Needles and Threads

Valentina Di Liscia, Hundreds Protest in Colombia After Far-Right President Removes Works From National Museum

Rhea Nayyar, Gowanus Open Studios Turns 30

Jennifer Samet, Beer With a Painter: Melissa Brown

John Yau, David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t

Anna Lee, Let’s Give a Round of A-Paws to These Tompkins Dog Parade Participants

Anna Lee, Paris Students Block Louvre Entrance, Forcing Closure

Daniela Mayer, Rosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It

Greta Rainbow, This Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way

Emma Cieslik, Smiles Meyer Queers “The Last Supper”

The Los Angeles Times

Jessica Gelt, The Broad will move more than 160 works to Paris and Leimert Park during construction

Carolina Miranda, LACMA, Perrotin, the new Metro and now the Brick: Todd Gray is having a banner year

The New York Times

Andrew Dickson, London Exhibition Displays Children’s Selfies as Art

Remy Tumin, Visitor Killed by Roof Debris at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West

Observer

Elisa Carollo, London’s October Auction Results Suggest the Market Is Playing It Safe

Elisa Carollo, Oscar Sunderland and Chloe Stewart Would Rather Collaborate With Their Artists Than Represent Them

Elisa Carollo, In Paris, Sotheby’s Is Betting on Intimacy to Win Over Private Buyers

Adam Robb, London’s Newest Museum Elevates Sir Philip Sassoon Above Lessons from World War II History

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, NASA said its space archive was down for ‘maintenance.’ Its security office shut it down.

Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: NASA security emails on the NSSDCA archive

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Art in America

John Yau, A Once-in-a-Lifetime Look Into America’s Most-Storied Art Couple

Eugenie Brinkema, How Cringe Took Over Culture

The Art Newspaper

Dale Berning Sawa, As France is rocked by explosive protests, art school students have their say

Gareth Harris, British Museum’s Red Ball sparks Energy Embargo for Palestine protests

EDITOR’S PICK - Faustine Jean-Louis, Comment | Art does not function like other commodities, so why is it being priced like one?: A commodity economist explains why the art market’s plumbing, its financial apparatus and its blind spots all look familiar—and why it enables fraudsters like Inigo Philbrick

J.S. Marcus, Hungarian art community takes stock of populist Orbán era’s enormous toll

Artforum

Harmon Siegel, Genre Mutation: Harmon Siegel on Spider-Noir

From the Editors, Philadelphia Jewish Museum Could Join Smithsonian Museum Network

From the Editors, Francesco Bonami Named Artistic Director Of Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture

From the Editors, Centre Pompidou’s Brazil Satellite Delayed Until 2029

From the Editors, François Pinault Plans Permanent Collection Exhibition at Venice Museum

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel Wins Miami Beach Rent Cut After Threatening Vegas Move

Andrew Russeth, Protestors Block Entrance to the Louvre Following Nationwide Protests

Sonia Manalili, What London’s Sales Tell Us About the Market

Andrew Russeth, After Protests and Riots, Art Basel Readies Paris Show

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies

Emi Eleode, The Best Booths at 1-54 London, From 3D-Printed Chairs to Futuristic Visions of Lagos’s Waterfront

Gameli Hamelo, Ibrahim Mahama’s Most Ambitious Show Yet Is Headed to Paris—But Its Core Is in Ghana

Anindo Sen, Eight Galleries in India You Should Know

Financial Times

From the Editors, The best art exhibitions to see in London right now

Tim Smith-Laing, One weekend, 1,400 works — how much art can a person absorb?

Edwin Heathcote, How artists have imagined the end of civilisations

Enuma Okoro, Help — four letters that require attention

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji review – sublime wonders from the Great Wave to that heroic, eternal peak

Harriet Gibsone, Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones looks back: ‘Men like seeing me be emotional’

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, The Buffalo Haunts America

Hakim Bishara, Diaries of a Primitive Man

Hrag Vartanian, Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Truth About America

Dan Schindel, Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections

Gregory Volk, Tanya Merrill’s Animal Instinct

Anna Lee, This Ron DeSantis Statue Can’t Take the Heat

Imran Siddiquee, Faith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven”

Rhea Nayyar, Massive King Ramses II Statues Unearthed in Egypt

The Los Angeles Times

Siran Babayan, These brothers founded a gallery after the Watts rebellion and arts in L.A. would never be the same

The New York Times

Eric Lipton, 25 Years After the World Trade Center Fell, an Architect’s Legacy Is Still Being Written

Brett Sokol, Art Basel Las Vegas? The Fight Over Miami Beach’s Fair

Will Heinrich, Blurring the Line Between 3 Dimensions and 2

Observer

Christa Terry, 72 Hours of Art in Cincinnati

Puck

Marion Maneker, Peter Simon Stories & The Popova Surprise

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Protesters urge Museum of Tolerance to address Gaza after unanswered letters

Adam Schrader, Senko Ikenobo offers prayer arrangement for NYC ikebana chapter’s 40th anniversary

Adam Schrader, Fiber artist who rarely exhibits brings four decades of handmade books to the Michener

Adam Schrader, Janet Biggs chases total solar eclipses in search of her late mother

Adam Schrader, Peter Kuper’s monarchs fly across American Museum of Natural History corridor

Vanity Fair

Nate Freeman, The Marfa Mythos

Vulture

Jerry Saltz, New Show, Same Lichtenstein

The Wall Street Journal

Brian P. Kelly, ‘Roy Lichtenstein: Like New’ Review: Paean to a Pop Artist at the Whitney

Michael J. Hatch, ‘China Institute Gallery at 60, 1966–2026’ Review: A Self-Reflective Survey

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Martin Bailey, Revealed: How Vincent van Gogh’s brother Theo gave Monet his first exhibition in London

Sophia Kishkovsky, US-Italian curator Francesco Bonami appointed artistic director of Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture

Vivienne Chow, De Kooning sets European record but still falls flat at muted Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale

Gareth Harris, François Pinault to launch permanent display of his collection at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi

Ben Luke, David Clack and Alexander Morrison, Frieze in London, Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Sienese sculptor Francesco di Giorgio—podcast

José da Silva, ‘I’ve learnt I can enjoy a work without having to acquire it’: Dasha Shenkman on her approach to art collecting

Annabel Keenan, Slow down and look: the simple complexity of Robert Ryman is revealed in Barbican exhibition

Dale Berning Sawa, ‘Even an ugly thistle can be so beautiful’: painter Sabine Moritz on how nature informs her work

Rachel Kubrick, In pictures: our pick of London’s Minor Attractions fair

J. Cabelle Ahn, At museums across London, Old Masters cuddle up to the contemporary—what makes this curatorial approach so appealing?

From the Editors, Frieze London Diary: fairgoers offered ‘15 minutes of fame’, ferocious Lego, and Queen Victoria as you have never seen her

Louisa Buck, Modernists brought into the mix at 1-54 Contemporary African art fair

Artforum

From the Editors, Christie’s London Sales Total $289 Million

From the Editors, Unseen for Centuries, Newly Discovered Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction

From the Editors, Rubaiya Qatar Announces Artists for Inaugural Edition

Katia Porro, An endless string of commas: the 18th Lyon Biennale

From the Editors, Ramses II Statues Found Buried in Egyptian Village

From the Editors, Danh Võ and Yohji Yamamoto Win 2026 Isamu Noguchi Award

Artnet

Vittoria Benzine, Sotheby’s Notches $61M at London Contemporary Sale, Buoyed by $12.9M de Kooning

Sonia Manalili, Inside the Scrappy SoHo Gallery That Made Art History in the Aughts

Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel’s Karim Crippa Dishes on Paris

Min Chen, Phillips Kicks Off Its London Sales With $7.6M Richter, $2.1M Banksy

Delia Harrington, At SFMOMA, K-Pop Star RM Is Curating His Own Way

ARTnews

Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Sale Tallies $61.1 M., Led by a $12.9 M. De Kooning

Anne Doran, National Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Misattributed Work from His Private Collection to the Musuem

Daniel Cassady, Dino Bones Held in UK Museum for 100 Years Identified as New Species

Hikmat Mohammed, Minor Attractions, a New London Fair In a Hotel, Finds Space for Emerging Galleries and Artists

Tessa Solomon, A New Met Show Promises Rembrandt, as Never Seen Before

Tessa Solomon, A Landmark Survey of Native Graphic Arts Defies Expectations

Daniel Cassady, Previously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction After Centuries in Private Hands

Andy Battaglia, Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Botched Beyond Previously Reported

Devorah Lauter, French Collector François Pinault Plans Permanent Hang in Venice Museum

Alex Greenberger, Tate Scoops Up Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze London

Maximilíano Durón, FOG Design+Art Fair Names 76 Exhibitors for 2027 Edition, With Revised Layout

ArtReview

From the Editors, ‘War conditions’ see Karachi Biennale cancelled

The Boston Globe

Mark Feeney, At the Danforth, looking out, looking in, and looking in between

Financial Times

James Hall, The perfect artist’s studio? An attic in Paris

Alice Cavanagh, Antoine Billore – the cheekiest boy in antiques

Frieze

Brenda Lozano, A Group Show in Mexico City Scours the Globe for God

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, Sweet nothings, urinal cakes and headless dogs: 10 artworks worth seeing at Frieze

Jonathan Jones, Hokusai on high, Bruges goes Bosch and Tate’s Turbine Hall has a blast – the week in art

Eddy Frankel, Issy Wood: Self-Portraits review – suffocatingly revealing works from the ultimate zillennial painter

Xiaoying You, Like dinosaur eggs in the sand: the pterosaur museum built to thrive in the Gobi desert

Jonathan Jones, Frieze review – you’ll see more avant garde wonders in the Bake Off tent

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, The “Renegade Housewife” of Pop Art

Valentina Di Liscia, Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga Selected for Met Museum Commissions

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, 12 Must-Read Books on Textiles and Fiber Art

Anna Lee, WPA Murals at Harlem Hospital Restored to Their Original Glory

Isabella Segalovich, The 98-Year-Old Pop Art Queen Behind an Iconic Lichtenstein Billboard

Naomi Polonsky, Ah, the Many Smells of Frieze London

John Yau, Valerio Adami’s Hot and Cold Art

Rhea Nayyar, Rembrandt’s Ancient Obsessions Are Made Anew in Upcoming Met Exhibition

Rhea Nayyar, Jazmine Hayes Charts Community Displacement, Resilience in Brownsville Art Commission

The New York Times

Rebecca L. Davis, A Paris Museum That’s Wild and a ‘Little Weird’

Arthur Lubow, Kashmir’s Beauty and Violence Captured in an Exquisite Debut at MoMA

EDITOR’S PICK - Scott Reyburn and Sam Bush, As Big Money Flees London’s Art Scene, Young Galleries Sharpen Their Edge: Tax reforms and Paris’s rise have taken a toll. But low-budget, risk-taking dealers are still creating buzz at the Frieze London fair and beyond.

Elaine Sciolino, In His Montmartre Atelier, a Self-Made, 91-Year-Old Artist Paints On

Will Higginbotham, The Artist Boz Deseo Garden and the Afterlife of the Slave Trade

Dawn Chan, Jillian Steinhauer and Travis Diehl, Art Gallery Shows to See in October

Keridwen Cornelius, At Art Basel Paris and Beyond, Celebrating 200 Years of Photography

Farah Nayeri, What Else to Check Out During Art Basel Paris

Tina Isaac-Goizé, For Contemporary Art, the Large Center Is a Big Deal

The New Yorker

Zachary Fine, The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Yan Du’s YDP Brings a New Model of Art Patronage to London

Elisa Carollo, At Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Rediscoveries Are Giving the Market New Momentum

Elisa Carollo, In “Casserole Culture,” Melissa Joseph Redraws the Geography of Home

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Getty Villa closes Friday as Bryson Fire burns in Malibu hills

Adam Schrader, Microsoft releases a free font drawn from Michelangelo’s handwriting

Adam Schrader, Texas Tech calls course review records unfinished drafts, tells court the review is complete

Adam Schrader, Records: Texas Tech course review records ruling and federal lawsuit exhibits

Adam Schrader, Dino Mommy, a self-funded paleontologist, fights to reopen Philadelphia museum

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, The Great Louvre Robbery Was Just the Start. It’s Been the Year of the Heist.

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Louisa Buck, It’s a wrap: the art world implications of the EU’s new packaging regulations

Vivienne Chow, Christie’s achieves £219m in ‘steady, solid’ London sales

Anny Shaw, Henry Chalfant’s legendary archive of New York graffiti goes on show for first time in Northern Europe

Gareth Harris, London exhibition throws stark light on tragedy in Gaza

Louisa Buck, Okiki Akinfe wins inaugural £30,000 emerging artist prize at Frieze London

Phin Jennings, Artists impacted by Stephen Friedman gallery closure out in force at Frieze London

Kabir Jhala and Melissa Gronlund, At Frieze London, some buyers are taking risks—others are taking their time

From the Editors, Frieze London Diary: pirate-turned-artist Johnny Depp heads to London, an authentic Boer war experience and fake news at the fair

Scarlet Cheng, New documentary celebrates women pioneers in performance art

Vincent Noce, Suspects in Renoir paintings heist were planning separate robbery at Fondation Maeght, police chief says

Elizabeth Mistry, Mexican military retreats from plans to build enormous museum in a popular park

Ben Luke, David Clack and Aimee Dawson, A brush with... Gabriel Orozco—podcast

Artforum

Ross Bleckner and Ryan Sullivan, Ross Bleckner: The Toad Chapters

From the Editors, Nature Morte Founder Peter Nagy, Champion of Contemporary Indian Art, Dead at 67

From the Editors, New York Gallery Salon 94 Expands to Paris

From the Editors, Getty Images Files for Bankruptcy

From the Editors, Le Large Opens Near Paris

From the Editors, 2027 Karachi Biennale Canceled Due To Regional Conflict

From the Editors, Artists “Freaking Out” Over Discontinued Sculpting Plaster

Artnet

Andrew Russeth, Louvre Museum Director Pleads for More Public Funding

Richard Whiddington, Christie’s Hauls In $289.4M at London Sales, Led by $41.8M Kandinsky

Jo Lawson-Tancred, $6.5M Jan Brueghel Sells at Frieze in London as Collectors Compete for Coveted Works

Richard Whiddington, Previously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Reemerges After Centuries

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Collector’s Diary: Chang Osathanugrah Reflects on What It Means to See Art with Fresh Eyes After Years of Looking

Daniel Cassady, Christie’s London Sales Bring in $289 M., With Records for Bridget Riley and Liubov Popova

Tessa Solomon, As Diplomatic Tensions Persist, British Museum Chairman ‘Optimistic’ on Parthenon Marbles Deal

Maximilíano Durón, Bortolami Now Represents Emily Sundblad, Shigeo Otake Joins White Cube, and More: Industry Moves for October 14, 2026

Leigh Anne Miller, Israel Returns 22 Looted Antiquities to Greece

Anne Doran, Monumental Statues of Ramses II Discovered in Egypt

Alex Greenberger, Frieze London Brings 400-Year-Old Paintings and Collectors in Their 20s

Maximilíano Durón, At Frieze, an Artist Project in the Fair’s Public Toilets Confronts the UK’s Ongoing Bathroom Wars

Maximilíano Durón, Salon 94 to Open Permanent Space in Paris During Art Basel

Andy Battaglia, Congressional Commission to Consider Adding Jewish Museum to Smithsonian Network

Alex Greenberger, Louvre Director Warns of ‘Disaster’ If Museum Does Not Receive Renovations

ArtReview

From the Editors, Portraits in Philanthropy: Grace Cheung

Ilaria Maria Sala, Inside Umberto Eco’s Library

From the Editors, Peter Nagy, artist and founder of Nature Morte, 1959–2026

From the Editors, Rubaiya Qatar 2026 announces full list of artists

EDITOR’S PICK - Jenny Wu, How to Stay Alive as a Small Art Institution: Jenny Wu speaks to various nonprofits about fundraising and the types of compromises that may come with it.

The Brooklyn Rail

Alfred Mac Adam, Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue

Jillian Russo, Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte

Avani Tandon Vieira, Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

Jasmine Weber, Dindga McCannon: Yesterday and Today

Financial Times

Kristina Foster, Six must-see shows in Paris this autumn

Jackie Wullschläger, Gustave Fayet’s art collection was the glory of Paris — now it dazzles again

Jennifer Higgie, [Woman] Painter credits unsung female heroes

Frieze

Sophie Mörner, Amanda Wilkinson and Ivana Cholakova, Amanda Wilkinson and Sophie Mörner on Supporting Queer Artists from Community to Market

From the Editors, Tate Acquires Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan and Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze

From the Editors, Valentine Wins the 2026 Frieze Stand Prize

Jamila Prowse, I Want an Exhibition I Can Hold in My Hands

From the Editors, What the CAS Collections Fund Acquired at Frieze London 2026

From the Editors, Arts Council Collection Fund Acquisitions at Frieze London 2026

From the Editors, Ella Fleck Wins the 2026 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award

The Guardian

Ben Eastham, Pope.L review – savage satire from Y-fronts-wearing trickster famed for gruelling ‘crawl’ across New York

Eddy Frankel, A tour around Amy Winehouse’s private junk: five free art exhibitions to see

Hanno Hauenstein, Her royal heilness: Berlin show revisits the artist who turned the Queen into a Nazi

David Smith, ‘I must continue until I die’: inside the fight to bring Iran’s thriving art scene to the world

Charlotte Jansen, A dominatrix and her tightly bound client: Giada Ripa’s best photograph

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Seeing Like John Berger

Phillip Pyle, Why Pageant Is Suddenly All the Rage

Anna Lee, Tammy Nguyen’s New Opera Will Be the Coda to the Venice Biennale

Channelle Chevelle Russell, Who’s the Thief in Deana Lawson’s Photography?

Aaron Short, Red Hook Open Studios Rises From the Ashes

Olivia McEwan, Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds

Paddy Johnson, Art Problems: Do I Need an Agent?

Megan O’Grady, John Berger in His Own Bruised Time

The New York Times

Leila Sheridan, A Fresh Take on Rembrandt Is Coming to the Met, Then Heading to the Louvre

Holland Cotter, Chicano, Gay and Still Inspiring Connections

Kin Woo and Mari Maeda-Oboshi and Yuji Oboshi, The Thrillingly Intricate Art of Cut Paper

Jillian Steinhauer, The Painter the Art World Loves to Forget

Observer

Christa Terry, Subtitled NYC Is Carving Out a Third Path for New York’s Artists

The Wall Street Journal

Diane Cole, ‘Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures From St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague’ Review: A City’s Side-by-Side Cultures

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Kabir Jhala, Peter Nagy—Nature Morte gallery founder who transformed Indian contemporary art market—has died

Alexandra F. Coego, House museum of Spanish ‘master of light’ Joaquín Sorolla reopens in Madrid

Deborah Nash, Roll up, roll up! Exhibitions celebrate the splendour of the circus and the artists it inspired

Carlie Porterfield, Small is beautiful: boutique fairs bring fresh ideas to London’s Frieze Week

From the Editors, Frieze London Diary: have your toilet cake and (don’t) eat it, dig out your pennies in Bloomsbury, and spot the fashion legends

Rachel Kubrick, Gothic church hosts Bagri Foundation’s first London show

Caroline Roux, From Belgian diesel tanks to Ivory Coast medallions, PAD London fair offers an eclectic mix

Melissa Gronlund, Artist Gabrielle Goliath brings cancelled Venice Biennale work to London

Phin Jennings, Gallery Climate Coalition’s ‘10% Of’ fundraising initiative returns to Frieze London for a second year

Phin Jennings, Frieze Artist Award winner Theo Triantafyllidis’s spider sculpture aims to bring people together

Annabel Keenan, Venice Biennale closing celebration to feature aria from artist Tammy Nguyen’s first opera

Patricia McIlreavy, Comment | Arts and culture belong in disaster recovery

Artforum

From the Editors, Descendents Of Lenepveu Threaten Legal Action Over Paris Opera Ceiling

From the Editors, Architect Junya Ishigami Wins Inaugural $100,000 Barragán Prize

From the Editors, Prague to Welcome First International Contemporary Art Fair in 2027

From the Editors, Qing Dynasty Ceramics on Display at British Museum Found Damaged

From the Editors, After Founder’s Untimely Death, New Owners for NYC’s Lubov Gallery

From the Editors, Family Demands Return of Work Made by Enslaved Potter David Drake

Artnet

Richard Whiddington, Sofia Bassi’s Market Is Heating Up as Female Surrealists Get Their Due

Min Chen, Frank Lloyd Wright Saw Red Over the Guggenheim’s White Facade

Adam Lindemann, Lunch With Adam: Met Curator Alisa LaGamma on Repatriation, the Revitalized Rockefeller Wing, the Benin Bronzes, and More

Annie Armstrong and Andrew Russeth, Where the New York Art World Eats: A Guide by Artnet News and Caper

Min Chen, Cyndi Lauper on the Art Behind Her Maximalist Looks: ‘Using Color That Would Explode’

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, A Long-Awaited Art Museum in a Former Renault Factory Finally Arrives on Paris’s Idyllic Île Seguin

Hikmat Mohammed, Dealer Adam Shopkorn’s Alternative Route to Frieze London With Haitian Artist Myrlande Constant

Tessa Solomon, Blackpink Superstar Rosé Tapped for LACMA’s Art+Film Gala

Tessa Solomon, After Algae Crisis and Vandalism Claims, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is Refilling

Brian Boucher, Pope Leo Addresses Global Museum Directors, Who ‘Safeguard a Heritage That Belongs to All Humanity’

Daniel Cassady, A $25 M. Tribeca Apartment Is Being Sold with a Keith Haring Mural

Alex Greenberger, Peter Nagy, Adventurous Artist Turned Sharp-Sighted Dealer, Dies at 67

Leigh Anne Miller, Getty Images Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Following Failed Merger with Shutterstock

Hikmat Mohammed, Chanel Culture Fund and Cindy Sherman Collaborate on Arts & Culture Magazine Ahead of Hauser & Wirth Exhibition

Andy Battaglia, Wynwood Walls Mural Museum Launches Free Admission for Miami Residents with Funding from Rockstar Games

Hikmat Mohammed, 7 Exhibitions to See in London During Frieze Week, From Shocking ’90s Artworks to Renoir Masterpieces

Daniel Cassady, French Police Foil Suspected Plot to Rob Fondation Maeght After Recovering Stolen Renoirs

Alex Greenberger, New York’s Lubov Gallery to Remain Open Under New Ownership After Founder’s Death

Alex Greenberger, Ancient Fayum Mummy Portrait Gets Fresh Restoration, With Rare Plans to Leave Egypt for Italy

ArtReview

Ella Frears, Anne Carson Wins the Nobel Prize, and Everyone Is Happy

Hok-hang Cheung, Chen Qiulin: Where Does the Past Live?

Adam Sudewo, The Evolving Language of Indonesia’s Local Craft

Peter Brock, Hanna Hur: Between Thinking and Feeling

The Boston Globe

Lauren Daley, From Fenway Park to Market Basket, Boston inspires this Somerville watercolor artist

The Brooklyn Rail

Philip Kelleher-Rios, Gabriel Martinez: Article

Justin Duyao, The 2026 Converge 45 Triennial: Here, To you, Now

Alfred Mac Adam, John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined

William Corwin, Seismic Shifts: Filippo Marignoli in Spoleto

Saul Ostrow, Gordon Matta-Clark: New Openings Against Old Surfaces: On Gordon Matta-Clark’s Walls Paper

Financial Times

Jackie Wullschläger, Photography’s subversive power shines through the dross in Tate Modern’s Light and Magic

Caroline Roux, Théo Mercier’s world of curious things

EDITOR’S PICK - Melanie Gerlis, Move over New York and LA: red states are the new home for art: Scenes are flourishing in Texas and Georgia as professionals and creative talent head inland

Julie Belcove, Stan Douglas: ‘The things AI steals are always better than the things it makes’

Ariella Budick, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock — a marriage that sustained and constrained

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, Larger Than Life review – Wallace, Gromit and the gang say cheeeese for hilarious Aardman origin story

Chris Osuh, 50 years on from Arts Britain Ignores: how much has changed for black and Asian artists?

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Roy Lichtenstein Was All Style

Rhea Nayyar, NYC Artists Open Their Doors

Emma Cieslik, “Cornell 7” Case Sparks Fury and Protests in Solidarity With Jane Doe

Anna Lee, Art Films We Look Forward to Watching at DOC NYC

Eileen G’Sell, Sara Flores Paints What the World Stands to Lose

John Yau, Roy Lichtenstein Has Lost His Luster

Rhea Nayyar, Utah Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Nine Mile Canyon Construction Project

Anna Lee, Karachi Biennale Cancels Fifth Edition Over “War Conditions”

Valentina Di Liscia, Jonathan Nez on Indigenous Perseverance

The Los Angeles Times

Laura Zornosa, Rosé is LACMA’s ‘number one girl’: She’ll perform at its upcoming Art + Film Gala

The New York Times

Zachary Small, Sculptors Panic as Specialty Plaster Used in Artworks to Be Discontinued

Kin Woo, Andreas Schulze’s Collection of Spritzdekor Ceramics

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Why James Brett Wants to Retire the Term “Outsider Art”

Elisa Carollo, The Haas Brothers On Finding Magic in Math at Marianne Boesky

Jasmine Lobe, At Storm King’s 2026 Gala, Sculpture Met Sky

Roberta Naas, Patek Philippe’s Milan Exhibition Is a Love Letter to Rare Handcrafts

Elisa Carollo, Public Gallery Built Its Reputation by Letting Artists Take the Lead

Elisa Carollo, The Must-See London Exhibitions Beyond Frieze

Emily Zemler, The London Restaurants With the Most Impressive Art Collections

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Lisa Movius, Malaysia’s contemporary art scene gains momentum with a new fair and nonprofit space

Aimee Dawson, Ditching the doom scroll: UK exhibition explores social media obsession and ways to break free

Senay Boztas, Dutch museum returns ancient vase to Sicily after research uncovers ‘problematic’ provenance

Mercedes Ezquiaga, Culture wars ramp up in Latin America as governments lurch to the right

Artforum

Alix Vernet, Alix Vernet on Poetry, Precious Moonlight, and Musician Moms

EDITOR’S PICK - Simon Denny, Polymarket and Philosophy: Simon Denny on the brave new cultural medium of speculation

From the Editors, Austrian Presidential Hopeful Vows To Repatriate Moctezuma’s Headdress To Mexico

From the Editors, Two Renoirs Returned, Six Apprehended in Theft at French Museum

From the Editors, Bangkok Art Biennale Announces Artists for 2026 Edition

From the Editors, Mary Deleary Appointed Director of Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

From the Editors, Van Gogh Museum Resolves Funding Dispute with Dutch Government

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tarek Atoui’s Turbine Hall Commission Is No Spectacle. Thank Goodness

Ben Davis, The Great Kelly Clarkson Wind-Up Bird Feud, Explained

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Echoes of Magritte Are Everywhere in London’s Galleries Right Now

Vittoria Benzine, Inside Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Cave of Clay and Sound

ARTnews

Alex Greenberger, Phillips to Sell Rare Amedeo Modigliani Sculpture for $35 M. During New York Sales

Anne Doran, Who Are the Most Faked Artists in History?

Andy Battaglia, Can Daniel Weiss Fix the Philadelphia Museum of Art?

Hikmat Mohammed, Marina Perez Simão Wants You to Meditate in Front of Her Paintings at Frieze London

Leigh Anne Miller, Christie’s to Sell Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Featured in Vogue Portrait by Lee Miller

Hikmat Mohammed, Frieze’s Kristell Chadé Discusses Why the Fair Has ‘Never Been About Adding Points on a Map’

Maximilíano Durón, Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris to Collaborate on Two-Part Exhibition Pairing Leonora Carrington and Cecilia Vicuña

Tessa Solomon, In Search of the Future, Artists Give New Life to Dead AI Models

ArtReview

Peter Brock, Hanna Hur: Between Thinking and Feeling

John Quin, The Story of British Antifascist Art

Alice Godwin, Anna Munk’s Cosmetic Still Lifes

The Brooklyn Rail

Ekin Erkan, Dustin Yellin: Politics of Eternity

David Ebony, David Černý: Artocalypsa

Annabel Keenan, Melissa Joseph: Casserole Culture

Ann McCoy, Claire Falkenstein: San Francisco, Paris, Rome

Jacob Patrick Brooks, Joseph Buckley: Chapeltown Road

Cultured

Isabella Bernstein, In London for Frieze? Here Are 12 Must-See Museum Shows Outside the Fair.

Financial Times

From the Editors, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock — a marriage that sustained and constrained

Jonathan Griffin, Robert Indiana was eclipsed by ‘Love’ — now he is being rediscovered

Family Style

Asha Salim, Arrivals and Departures

Frieze

Harriet Lloyd-Smith, The Best Shows to See in London During Frieze

The Guardian

Charlotte Jansen, Our Bodies Have Been Bridges review – riveting portraits and the story of the first woman on Earth

Jonathan Jones, Georg Baselitz: The Heroes review – astonishing paintings take a savage swipe at history

Christian House, Home is where the jellyfish glows: Finland finally warms to nature-loving modernist Alvar Aalto

Jonathan Jones, Tarek Atoui’s Turbine Hall review – hallelujah, it’s raining musical instruments!

Simone Walsh, A job that changed me: As a jeweller, I wanted to avoid sweatshops. Then I realised I’d built one for myself

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Vermeer the Immortal

Armando Pulido, The Trafficker Who Furnished the Museums of LA

Julia Curl, A Little Fantasy Goes a Long Way

Anna Lee, NYC to Provide Free Art Supplies to Grantees

Lauren Moya Ford, Finding Vermeer in Unexpected Places

Bryan Martin, When the Accessibility Conveyor Belt Jams

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel: Flor Khan

The Los Angeles Times

Jane Horowitz, At 80, artist Lita Albuquerque is queen of the desert with two new shows

The New York Times

Steven Kurutz, White Paint. It’s Everywhere. She Hates It.

The New Yorker

Hilton Als, Deana Lawson’s Subjects of Surveillance

Observer

Megan Fox Kelly, Two Collections, Two Canons: What Andrew and Paul Mellon Built, One Generation Apart

Elisa Carollo, Gökhun Baltacı Paints the Psychic Weight of Memory

Puck

Marion Maneker, London Rising

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Sid Bass and his gallerist wife move to toss ex-partner’s $400 million suit

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Oona Sperr’s $400M lawsuit against Sid Bass and Althea Viafora Bass

Adam Schrader, Appeals by Dan Patrick and Dawn Buckingham freeze ex-Alamo chief’s lawsuit

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Ex-Alamo chief Kate Rogers’ free speech lawsuit against Dan Patrick

Adam Schrader, Titanic artifacts company says it could run out of money within six months

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: R.M.S. Titanic Inc.’s appeal over the French Collection auction

Vogue

Amy Verner, At the Bourse de Commerce, Barbara Kruger Isn’t Mincing Words

Vulture

Stephanie Wambugu, Taryn Simon’s American Fiction

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Ben Luke, ‘I see the Turbine Hall as a sound vessel’: artist Tarek Atoui on his Tate Modern commission

Gareth Harris, Pope Leo XIV addresses international museum directors at the Vatican

Carlie Porterfield, A potentially record-breaking Mondrian and a recently restituted Kandinsky painting: our pick of the October auctions

EDITOR’S PICK - Bendor Grosvenor, Comment | Why the Great Art Transfer is an empty promise: A forecast generational shift in art ownership is fuelling a new sales pitch—but buying art as an investment remains a gamble

Artforum

Theo Belci, From the Archive: Slavoj Žižek and the Body Politic

Barry Shwabsky, How Rafael Ferrer Skewered the Art World

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Pope Leo Meets With Major Museum Leaders

Ben Davis, Arthur Jafa Is a Major Minor Artist

Sonia Manalili, Clare McAndrew on How to Measure the Art Market

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Two Stolen Renoirs Worth $10M Recovered in France

Katya Kazakina, Why This Avery Singer Painting Just Sold at a 91 Percent Loss

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, Clare McAndrew on How to Measure the Art Market

Sayoko Teitelbaum, Where the Art World Eats, Sleeps, and Shops in London During Frieze

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Could This Victorian Snap Be History’s Earliest Mirror Selfie?

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sotheby’s Nabs $100M Ted and Ruth Baum Collection

ARTnews

Anne Doran, The Most Expensive Works by Gustav Klimt Sold at Auction

Hikmat Mohammed, Alex Margo Arden Gets Up Close and Personal With Amy Winehouse’s Items for an Exhibition in London

Leigh Anne Miller, Arlington County Board Files Lawsuit to Stop Construction of Trump’s Triumphal Arch

Hikmat Mohammed, Two Renoir Paintings Worth $10.5 M. Recovered After Theft

Hikmat Mohammed, A Winston Churchill Painting Gifted to His Daughter Lands at Christie’s

Maximilíano Durón, Guadalupe Maravilla to Stage Major Installation at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine This December

Maximilíano Durón, Brussels Gallery Super Dakota to Close After 15 Years

Andy Battaglia, With an $18 M. Price Tag, 24-Karat ‘Fancy Intense Pink’ Diamond Ring Heads to Auction at Christie’s Geneva

Hikmat Mohammed, Julianne Moore’s West Village Home Features Work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong

ArtReview

Nirmala Devi, ‘Scene City’ by Róisín Tapponi, Reviewed

Shaunak Mahbubani, Salman Toor’s Laws of Attraction

The Brooklyn Rail

Adriana Furlong, Selena Kimball: Ice-blink

Michael Corris, Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest

Maisie Molot, Herman Cherry: Rivers From 30,000 Feet

Saul Ostrow, Valerio Adami: Alice in the Land of Violence

Tony Bluestone, Mala Iqbal: Among Us

Financial Times

From the Editors, Tarek Atoui wants Turbine Hall visitors to hear his art — and feel the sound

Prune Nourry, How Prune Nourry resurrected Paris’s forgotten female artists

David Pilling, He’s been named the most powerful artist in the world. What drives Ibrahim Mahama?

From the Editors, Our eternal quest to make sense of the night sky

From the Editors, Artist Thomas Houseago: ‘This house was a rainbow after the storm’

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, Prem Sahib: Chamber review – master of unease twists the city into terror and pleasure

Eddy Frankel, Gabrielle Goliath: Elegy review – devastating lament is a furious, single-note call to action

Kim Willsher, Chagall or Lenepveu or both? Row over Paris opera house dome enters legal arena

Chloe Kerleroux, ‘We’re in a brotherhood now’: the Bill Pickett rodeo – photo essay

Alex Needham, Pine cones, glitter and a hip-hop head for sale: red-hot artists reveal their Frieze stunners

Dale Berning Sawa, ‘Enough of this suffering!’ Joana Vasconcelos on why she is fed up with women’s art defined by pain

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Raven Chacon’s Echoes on Park Avenue

Hakim Bishara, Long Live Generation 6-7

Phillip Pyle, Raven Chacon Sounds the History of the Land

Chinyere Erondu, Truman Lowe Listens to the Water

Rhea Nayyar, 7 New York Exhibitions That Embody Indigenous Survivance

Anna Lee, Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art to Open Katonah Space in November

Silvia Benedetti, A Felix Gonzalez-Torres Exhibition Forgets What He Was Fighting For

The Los Angeles Times

Jane Horowitz, The new Hammer Museum director is on a mission to create a Westside Arts District

Observer

Noah Berlatsky, For Jonathan David Katz, the Story of American Art Is a Queer One

Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at New York Film Festival: Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Transcript: Cold Take Ep. 15 on the NSA’s bin Laden exhibit, Leon Black and a visa denial

Adam Schrader, Appeals court voids Manhattan DA’s seizure of Art Institute of Chicago’s Schiele

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Appeals court decision in Art Institute of Chicago Schiele case

Adam Schrader, Cagnes-sur-Mer mayor says stolen Renoir paintings recovered, six arrested

Adam Schrader, Super Dakota founder closes Brussels gallery, launches art-and-gaming institute

Adam Schrader, U.S. grant pays to restore Hamilton House on Nevis, add Constance Baker Motley exhibit

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, The New Museum Spotlights New York City’s First Working-Class Entertainment Zone

The Art Newspaper

Ben Luke, David Clack and Alexander Morrison, Palestinian artists after the ceasefire, Robert Ryman, Katherine Hubbard—podcast

Gareth Harris, Police recover Renoir paintings stolen from French museum

Louisa Buck, Comment | Mark Wallinger’s latest work reflects his mastery of making big ideas accessible

J.S. Marcus, Restoration of earthquake-hit palace in Mantua nears completion

Martin Bailey, A Louis Vuitton foundation exhibition, with ten Van Gogh paintings, reveals the extraordinary vision of an early collector

Hadani Ditmars, Signet ring depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria—a lost wonder of the ancient world—discovered during underwater excavation

Angella d’Avignon, St Louis’s Counterpublic triennial explores connections between art and civic infrastructure

Allison C. Meier, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s cemetery art restored in the Bronx

Dale Berning Sawa, Uncertain future for Glasgow’s art scene as city’s Centre for Contemporary Art closes

Artforum

2020 Music Group, Hate the Real: Three Music Picks for October

From the Editors, Protesters Pressure MoMA to Boot Leon Black from Museum’s Board

From the Editors, The Asian Art Biennial Announces Full Lineup

From the Editors, Tang Contemporary Closes Hong Kong Outpost Amid Allegations of Nonpayment

From the Editors, Survey Finds Gen Z Collectors To Be the Art World’s Biggest Spenders

From the Editors, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago Announces $5 Million Gender Equity Fund For Artists

From the Editors, Gochman Family Collection to Open Hudson Valley Art Space

From the Editors, Gilded Statue of Nude, Golf-Club-Wielding Trump Installed in European Parliament

Artnet

Andrew Russeth, The Whitney’s Roy Lichtenstein Survey Is a Sly Triumph

Richard Whiddington, After Spat With Dutch Gov, Van Gogh Museum Gets Reno Funds

Sonia Manalili, Let’s Talk About Lee Krasner (and Jackson Pollock)

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint in Utah! Reed Hastings’s Skiable Art Museum, a Pink Spiral Jetty, and More

Margaret Carrigan, New Frieze Week Events Aim to Make Art Fairs Fun Again

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, It’s Yours Now: What Top Collectors Have Donated to Museums

Anne Doran, Ten Spiritualist Women Artists to Know

Maximilíano Durón, In Memoriam: Remembering Art Collectors Lost, From Agnes Gund to Dorothy Vogel

Leigh Anne Miller, Van Gogh Museum Reaches Agreement with Dutch Government on Contentious Renovation Budget

Daniel Cassady, At the Fall’s First Major Auctions, Buyers Spent Carefully but Competed for the Right Works

Francesca Aton, A New AI Tool Wants to Fix the Gender Imbalance of Gallery Rosters

Andy Battaglia, Cooper Union Strikes New Land-Lease Deal for New York’s Chrysler Building, With Plans to Restore Full-Tuition Scholarships

Brian Boucher, Tang Contemporary Art Shutters a Hong Kong Location as Creditors File Complaints and Artists Claim Overdue Payments

Tessa Solomon, Former Bard President Resigns College Affiliations Amid Inquiry Into Jeffrey Epstein Ties

Maximilíano Durón, Gochman Family Collection’s Hudson Valley Space to Be Called Branchline, Opening in November

Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s To Offer $100 M. Collection of Ted and Ruth Baum, Led by $15 M. Paintings by Rothko and Ruscha

ArtReview

From the Editors, Biennale Jogja Foundation closes

Lydia Eliza Trail, Maren Karlson’s Baader Meinhof Complex

Gwen Burlington, ‘The Floating World’ by Ben Eastham, Reviewed

The Boston Globe

Murray Whyte, ‘America in the Making’ at the Addison Gallery of American Art is a big attempt to comprehend our national narrative

Murray Whyte, Beyond the Noguchi Table: Exploring a design polymath’s legacy

The Brooklyn Rail

Ekin Erkan, Thomas Ruff: jpegs ny

Andrew Paul Woolbright, Frank Gillette: Spectra Obscura

Suzanne Hudson, Tariku Shiferaw: Hulet Semāi (Two Skies)

Alex Grimley, Howard Smith: Tomorrow isn’t Yesterday

Terry R. Myers, Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden

Financial Times

Ariella Budick, Arthur Jafa’s New York retrospective treads disturbing ground lightly

Jackie Wullschläger, Baselitz’s anti-heroic ‘Heroes’ burst into life at Thaddaeus Ropac

EDITOR’S PICK - Melanie Gerlis, Who will crack the Gen Z art market?: Galleries and fairs are increasingly courting younger audiences who have caught the art-buying bug

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Tate sounds eerie, Frieze returns and Cindy Sherman takes surreal selfies – the week in art

Ben Eastham, Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, France’s Student Protests in Photos

Valentina Di Liscia, Mary Deleary Named Director of IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Anna Lee, 15 Defining Photos From the Student Protests in France

Hrag Vartanian, The Ritual Joy of Queer Performance Refuses to Give Up

Anna Lee, EMΣT in Athens Wins European Art Museum Award for Social Impact

Rhea Nayyar, Congressman Calls on Smithsonian to Document Trump’s “Narcissistic Self-Worship”

Anthony Hawley, Frank Gillette’s Anthropic Blues

Seph Rodney, I Wanted a Different Betty Parsons Exhibition

The New York Times

M.H. Miller, Marina Abramović Can’t Be Ignored

Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, An Artist Who Adds Punchlines to His Portraits

Observer

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Mary Cassatt, After Impressionism” at the Art Institute of Chicago

Nathan Smith, Eight Books That Illuminate the Brilliance and Biases of the Nobel Prize

Elisa Carollo, Ragnar Kjartansson Makes the Familiar Strange at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Chiwoniso Kaitano, Why Artist Residencies May Be Culture’s Best Defense Against Automation

Elisa Carollo, With Ostillo Art Foundation, Collector René Campos Wants to Challenge How Texas Sees Art

Elisa Carollo, The Art Basel and UBS Collecting Survey Shows Gen Z Setting the Pace, and the Megafair Is Remaking Itself to Keep Up

Daniella Nicola, Demna’s Power at Gucci Goes Beyond the Runway

Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at New York Film Festival: Tom McCarthy’s ‘A Statement’

T Magazine

From the Editors, She Found Fame With ‘Caps for Sale.’ A New Exhibition Shows Her Range.

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Whitney unveils first major New York Lichtenstein retrospective since 1993

The Washington Post

Philip Kennicott, It’s up to Chief Justice Roberts to preserve the Smithsonian’s independence

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

The Art Newspaper

Joe Ware, Artists create works inspired by Paul McCartney lyric for War Child charity auction

Hokhang Cheung, Hong Kong gallery Tang Contemporary closes amid row over outstanding debts

From the Editors, Will Beryl Cook finally make it into Tate Modern?

Gareth Harris, ‘I am such a lazybones’: New book reveals Claude Monet’s life through his letters

Carlie Porterfield, Wealthy Gen Z collectors are the art market’s biggest spenders, survey finds

Scarlet Cheng, K-pop star RM shows off his collection of Korean art at SFMoMA

Emma Cieslik, Artist unveils golden statue of a nude Donald Trump at European parliament building

Isa Farfan, Pop-up exhibition outside MoMA highlights connections between trustee Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein

Gareth Harris, Huge bronze book cover by Salvador Dalí stolen in latest French museum theft

Melissa Gronlund, Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director

Artforum

From the Editors, Hong Kong’s Para Site Exits Quarry Bay and Announces Nomadic Program

From the Editors, V&A Announces Voluntary Exit Scheme For All Staff

From the Editors, 330-Pound Dalí-Designed Bronze Book Cover Stolen from French Museum

From the Editors, Souraya Noujaim Named Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi

From the Editors, Eva Presenhuber Shutters Vienna Gallery

From the Editors, Zaha Hadid Foundation Opens Arts Space in Former London HQ

Tonio Schachinger, What’s Love Got to Do with It

Artnet

Prudence Peiffer, How Robert Indiana Made America—and America Made Him

Andrew Russeth, The Archives of Legendary New York Galleries Just Went Online

Richard Whiddington, Congressman Calls for Smithsonian Exhibit on Trump Propaganda

Katya Kazakina, The Met’s Krasner-Pollock Blockbuster ‘Was a Herculean Effort.’ Here’s How It Came Together

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Hammer Museum Board Gets New Chair, Denzil Forrester Joins Thaddaeus Ropac, and More: Industry Moves for October 8, 2026

EDITOR’S PICK - Brian Boucher, The Wealthiest Collectors Are Increasingly Relying on AI, Says Art Basel/UBS Report: For the first time, collectors were asked how they got started on collecting and how they think about publicizing their holdings.

Hikmat Mohammed, Is the Tate’s ’90s Art and Fashion Show a Buzzing Delight or a Wardrobe Malfunction? Depends on Who You Ask

Maximilíano Durón, As Europe Enters Art Fair Season, London is Looking Fresh and Paris Continues to Shine

Francesca Aton, Greek Prime Minister to “Ramp Up” Efforts Related to Parthenon Marbles Return

Alex Greenberger, Roy Lichtenstein Saw Our Pictures-Obsessed Moment Coming—and Deliberately Fed Into It

Tessa Solomon, Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, Sets $1.3 M. Auction Record

Brian Boucher, Rep. Jamie Raskin Wants the Smithsonian to Collect and Display Trump’s Propaganda, To Teach About Tyranny

Francesca Aton, Whitney Museum and Gap Unveil New Roy Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration

Maximilíano Durón, Paula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers to Stage Two-Venue Frank Stella Exhibition Next Spring

ArtReview

From the Editors, The ArtReview Philanthropy Supplement 2026 Out Now

From the Editors, ArtReview October 2026 Issue Out Now

The Atlantic

Kelsey Ables, Trump’s Unlikely Strategy to Control History: Footnotes

The Brooklyn Rail

Lilac Burrel, Buket Savci: Patches For a Broken Harmony

Francesca Pietropaolo, Tatiana Trouvé: The Auxiliaries

Invar-Torre Hollaus, Patrick Rohner: Faltungen

David Rhodes, Hans Arp: Heads or Tails

Joel Danilewitz, Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher

Financial Times

From the Editors, ‘The 90s: Art and Fashion’ is a riotous, revisionist version of Britain

Hilton Als, ‘She lets her energy go full throttle’: Hilton Als on Alice Neel’s queer portraits

From the Editors, 21 outstanding ways to spend it in October

The Guardian

Helen Meany, Lourdes gets a Vegas glow-up at Dublin theatre festival, where canvases are slashed

Fiona Sturges, Severed hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions

Eddy Frankel, Crush-worthy photography, camp sci-fi and a centenarian’s florals: five free exhibitions to see

Ben Eastham, Robert Ryman review – can your brain handle a show that only has white paintings?

Zoe Whitfield, ‘In the wake of death, Courtney Love was giving it her all’: Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur on her best photograph

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie?

Anna Lee, Las Vegas Teen Killed in Arts District Shooting

Rhea Nayyar, European Parliament Installs Gilded Nude Statue Mocking Trump

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse

Phillip Pyle, LACMA’s Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves

Matt Stromberg, 10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October

Daniel Larkin, The Hellhounds of Genocide

Amy Gilman, The Museum Director as Gardener

Lavinia Liang, Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow

Irene Lee, Celebrating 60 Years of NYC’s Millennium Film Workshop

The New York Times

Jason Farago, Connecting the Dots Between Roy Lichtenstein and Today

Blake Gopnik, The Fresh Charms of Art From the 15th Century

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Dindga McCannon Has Been Stitching Black History into the American Art Canon for 60 Years

Christa Terry, Kristof Santy Would Rather Trust Objective Reality than Reach for Eve’s Apple

Dan Duray, Newly Appointed Madre Director Eugenio Viola Sees the Museum as a Living Archive

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Epstein survivor at MoMA protest says Epstein talked up his art world connections

Adam Schrader, Appeals judges press NEA on ‘gender ideology’ penalty for arts grants

The Wall Street Journal

Judith H. Dobrzynski, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture’ Review: Familiar Painter, New Perspective

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The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Huge bronze book cover by Salvador Dalí stolen in latest French museum theft

Ben Luke, David Clack and Aimee Dawson, A brush with… Cecilia Vicuña—podcast

Melissa Gronlund, Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director

Sophia Kishkovsky, Ukraine rebuilds museum devoted to controversial national figure

Annabel Keenan, Brooklyn Museum’s $48m energy-efficiency retrofit is latest in New York City’s effort to cut emissions

Mark Asch, A documentary about and largely filmed by blind girls offers a casually radical perspective

Hadani Ditmars, Toronto biennial brings monument to resilience and spiritual liberation to a Sikh community centre

Artforum

Jörg Heiser, The Kyiv Biennial in Berlin

Aria Dean, Experience Machine

From the Editors, Foster + Partners Completes Addition to Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

From the Editors, Detroit Design District Launches Whitney ISP–Style Program

From the Editors, New Museum Announces Artists, Theme for 2027 Triennial

From the Editors, Phoenix Art Museum Receives a $5 Million Gift For Its Asian Art Wing

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Souraya Noujaim Returns to Louvre Abu Dhabi as Its New Director

Caroline Goldstein, Stanley Kubrick’s Curio-Filled Archive Hits the Auction Block

Kenny Schachter, A Taste for Toxins: Kenny Schachter on Sigmar Polke’s Poison Paradise and the Pathology of Normalcy

Richard Whiddington, Loot Alors! Dalí Book Cover Stolen from French Museum

Richard Whiddington, Philip Tinari Gets Top Tai Kwun Arts Job

Richard Whiddington, The New Museum Triennial Is Back—and It’s More International Than Ever

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, How Printmaking Changed the Way Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted

Maximilíano Durón, Ten Out of Ten: Top 200 Collector Joop van Caldenborgh Reflects on His Museum Voorlinden’s First Decade

Hikmat Mohammed, The Zaha Hadid Foundation Is Reopening the Late Architect’s Former HQ as a Public Arts Space

Devorah Lauter, Zurich-Based Dealer Eva Presenhuber to Close ‘Sentimental’ Vienna Gallery Space

Leigh Anne Miller, ‘Jodi,’ Sotheby’s Newly-Minted Nanotyrannus, Hits the Auction Block With $9 M. Estimate

Tessa Solomon, Martha Jungwirth’s Abstractions Animate AKRIS’s Spring 2026 Collection

Francesca Aton, Phoenix Art Museum Receives $5 M. Donation to Expand Sri Lankan and South Asian Art Galleries

Hikmat Mohammed, The State Russian Museum Has Restored Ivan Aivazovsky Seascape Painting Ahead of Major Retrospective

Maximilíano Durón, New Museum Announces 36 Artists and Collectives for Upcoming Triennial, Including Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Josi, Jota Mombaça, and Agnes Questionmark

Francesca Aton, Art Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Lists Upper East Side Co-Op for $12 M.

Devorah Lauter, Dalí-Designed Bronze ‘Livre de l’Apocalypse’ Book Cover Stolen from French Museum

ArtReview

Patrick Langley, Tarek Atoui’s Echo Chamber

Qingyuan Deng, Caguiat Delacruz’s Modern Tramp

From the Editors, Souraya Noujaim appointed director of Louvre Abu Dhabi

Suraj Yengde, How Stephen Batchelor Pictures Ethics

From the Editors, Philip Tinari named director of Tai Kwun Arts

From the Editors, Artists announced for 2026 Asian Art Biennial

From the Editors, Details announced for 2027 New Museum Triennial

The Brooklyn Rail

Neil Balfour, The End of (Art) History

Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera, On Machines Without a Canon

Matthew Lawson Garrett, Richard Tuttle and Jun Aoki: Almost Sky

Terry R. Meyers, John Baldessari: Sculptures

Patrick Hill, David Reed: Terrible Idea

Financial Times

Kitty Grady, Eva Langret’s guide to London’s best museums — and the perfect gift shop

Maria Shollenbarger, Fumagalli & Dossi’s empire of plaster casts

From the Editors, San Francisco’s newest exhibition curator? K-pop superstar RM

Lucy Davies, Cindy Sherman: ‘My photographs make me come to terms with my body changing’

Frieze

From the Editors, Meet the Committee: Freddie Powell of Ginny on Frederick

From the Editors, Announcing the 2026 Frieze x ICA Artists’ Film Programme

From the Editors, Carolina Aguirre on Identity and Holding onto Memories of Home

Galerie

Rima Suqi, Meet the Maker Using Knots to Draw in Space

Rena Gross, Rétromobile Stops at CART Department on the Way to Javits Center

The Guardian

Hannah Kay, ‘Curious and circumspect creatures’: the artist making sculptures for the rats of New York City

Alice Fisher, ‘My first photographs coincided with me falling in love’: why children have always adored taking pictures

Sosina Mengistu, Women behind the lens: ‘I felt suspended between hope and giving up’

From the Editors, Why this Sidney Nolan painting was a breakthrough moment for Australian modern art – video

Helena Smith, Greek prime minister vows to ‘ramp up’ efforts to regain Parthenon marbles

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Leon Black, You Can’t Hide

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Art Reads for Banned Books Week

Anna Lee, MoMA Helping “Sanitize” Leon Black’s Reputation, Protesters Say

Jasmine Weber, “Thinking From Black” Is a Glossary of Possibility

Rhea Nayyar, On Taking Care of Each Other

From the Editors, A Hyperallergic Halloween

Natalie Weis, Ayé A. Aton Returns to His Earthly Roots

Rhea Nayyar, These Are the Artists in the 2027 New Museum Triennial

Gabrielle Vazquez, A Triumphant Tribute to Latine Visual Culture

Rhea Nayyar, Independent Art Fair Purchased by British Conglomerate

The Los Angeles Times

Sam Lubell, ‘Home of the Future’ at LACMA explores dark side of American dream

The New York Times

Frank Rose, Are You Prepared for MoMA’s New Swamp?

Rebecca Chao, Bought for $30, Gertrude Abercrombie Painting Set Off $1.35 Million Bidding War

Observer

Elisa Carollo, At David Zwirner New York, Scott Kahn’s Landscapes Open Windows Onto Other Worlds

Nadja Sayej, Inside the Vanity Museum That Star Wars Built

Elisa Carollo, The Toronto Biennial Sets Ancient Wisdom Against Modern Collapse

Naima Morelli, How Oslo’s Museums Are Confronting the Contradictions in Their Collections

OCULA

EDITOR’S PICK - Phin Jennings, The Promises Auction Houses Make to Secure Major Consignments: Blockbuster estate sales have invigorated the art market. But can auction houses maintain the momentum and keep acquiring these mega‑consignments, and what does this pattern mean for the rest of the art world? Phin Jennings investigates.

Jack Parlett, A Stitch in Time

Puck

Marion Maneker, Gallery Report: The Rest of the Best

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Trump’s A.I. chatbot rewrites arts agencies’ words and omits Smithsonian pressure

Adam Schrader, Judge sets conditions for lawyer defending collector in Eden Fine Art lawsuit

Adam Schrader, Deputies say Sinema’s ex-bodyguard sank $123,015 in paintings in her pool

Whitehot

J. Scott Orr, How Graffiti Artist GIZ Got From a Train Yard in Queens to a Gallery in Miami

Margherita Artoni, Rita Ackermann: The Letter as Condition at Hauser & Wirth

From the Editors, Four Ruben Natal-San Miguel photographs were acquired by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Raphy Sarkissian, The Prereflective at Harper’s Gallery

Margherita Artoni, Dhewadi Hadjab in conversation with Margherita Artoni. Painting, perception, and the unstable image.

Margherita Artoni, Kerry James Marshall: The Right to Appear in History - at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

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Airmail

Mary Gabriel, Love, Paint, and Fury

Apollo Magazine

Valérie Lapierre, France’s doyen of decoration has created his very own Versailles

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum planning to launch voluntary exit scheme

Tobias Carroll, Book examines the connection between auteur Federico Fellini and the last castrato

Eddi Fiegel, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gains new €45m Norman Foster-designed wing

From the Editors, Jean-ius portraiture: Nan Goldin collaborates with fashion house Acne Studios

Caroline Roux, Historic building in old Danish artist colony transformed into luxury hotel

Nina Siegal, From an indoor forest to a toilet made with seaweed: Design Museum Gent reopens after €20m eco-focused expansion

Sarvy Geranpayeh, A year into the Gaza ceasefire, art is a means of survival

Sarah Cascone, Museum of the City of New York opens new centre for social activism

Gabriella Angeleti, Phoenix Art Museum receives $5m gift for new Sri Lankan and South Asian art galleries

Artforum

Mika Lee, New York Art Fair Organizer Independent Acquired by Global Conglomerate Informa

From the Editors, Strike That Threatened Lichtenstein Blockbuster Averted as Whitney Workers Ratify Contract

From the Editors, Jeff Koons to Auction $100 Million of Personal Art Collection

From the Editors, Use the Force: Lucas Museum Fences Off Its Public Courtyard

From the Editors, Mayor Mamdani Doubles Grants for New York Artists

Alex Jovanovich, From the Archive: the Vatic and Vexing Guy De Cointet

Artnet

Nicholas Frank, ‘People Were Horrified’: How a Bruce Nauman Sculpture Shocked Dallas

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Guerrilla Art Project Responds to ‘Cornell 7’ Case

Richard Whiddington, British Museum Apologizes as Bayeux Tapestry Show Faces Criticism

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, What the World’s Top Collectors Bought in 2026, From a 15th-Century Pietà Painting to an Oar from Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion

Maximilíano Durón, The Year of the Trophy: An Introduction to the 2026 Edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors List

Maximilíano Durón, What’s One Museum Work the Top 200 Collectors Would Own If They Could?

Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews’s “Top 200 Collectors” Issue Features 37th Annual List, Conservation Tips for Caring for Your Collection, and More

Leigh Anne Miller, The British Museum Will Extend Its Hours Amid ‘Extraordinary’ Demand for Bayeux Tapestry

Brian Boucher, In Vatican Address, Pope Leo Denounces AI-Generated Art: ‘The Church Needs Artists’

Hikmat Mohammed, Sotheby’s Will Host “The Art of Divorce” Panel Discussion in Geneva

Maximilíano Durón, Bluhm Family Gives $5 M. to MCA Chicago for Gender Equity Fund, Named After Outgoing Director

Francesca Aton, Philip Tinari Appointed Director of Tai Kwun Arts in Hong Kong

Brian Boucher, Jeff Koons Appears to Be the ‘Distinguished Collector’ Offering $100 M. in Old and Modern Masters at Christie’s

Tessa Solomon, Whitney Museum Workers Reach Contract Deal Hours Before Strike Deadline

Francesca Aton, Attempted Robbery Foiled at the Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris

Hikmat Mohammed, JW Anderson, Artist Cerith Wyn Evans Team Up for Frieze Week

ArtReview

From the Editors, Philip Tinari named director of Tai Kwun Arts

From the Editors, The 13 Exhibitions to See in October 2026

Mateus Nunes, Why Paulo Pedro Leal Belongs in Brazilian Art History

From the Editors, Artists announced for 2026 Lagos Biennial

From the Editors, Details announced for 2027 New Museum Triennial

BOMB

Phillip Edward Spradley, Alix Vernet by Phillip Edward Spradley

The Brooklyn Rail

Farah Faizal, A Nation at the End of Someone Else’s History

Ali Banisadr, Is Time an Arrow or a Wheel?

Andrew M. Rohling, The End of History, The Old Order, Transformed

Mohammad Khaddam, A brief reflection on the collapse of Syrian history and culture

Genti Korini, The End of History: A Place in the Sun

Financial Times

Maya Jaggi, Sensual, dangerous, joyous — painter Salman Toor brings New York queer life to the Courtauld

Jacoba Urist, Do you remember your first Magritte? Artists on the surrealist’s impossible world

Ariella Budick, Taryn Simon goes down the FBI rabbit hole at the Guggenheim

Ariella Budick, Alison Knowles — the artist who turned lunch into a heroic display

Frieze

From the Editors, Watch Now: Theo Triantafyllidis is Building a New World for His Spider

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, The 90s: Art and Fashion review – this isn’t an exhibition, it’s a magazine spread

Charlotte Jansen, British Art Show 10 review – a bold and brilliant exploration of who the British really are

Sarah Johnson, ‘There’s always been a belittling of African women’: honouring history’s invisible heroines

Jason Okundaye, ‘I call them erotic landscapes’: fashion photographer Tim Walker on his powerful tapestry of queer Britain

Jonathan Jones, Aphrodite review – a trashy way to treat the goddess of love

Helena Horton, Artist calls in lawyers after Tories use his Burnham portrait without consent

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Lee Krasner Gets the Last Word

Lucy Ives, The Met’s Krasner and Pollock Show Is a Breathtaking Upending

EDITOR’S PICK - Anna Lee, Pope Leo Calls to Save Art From AI: “Algorithms lack the spark of the human, whereas ‘authentic culture and art preserve this spark,’” hesaid in a recent speech.

Tao Leigh Goffe, Turning Turner’s Legacy

Hakim Bishara, Elaina Richardson Looks Back at 26 Years as President of Yaddo

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

Aruna D’Souza, Rana Begum Sees What You Don’t

Rhea Nayyar, Whitney Museum Union Ratifies Contract on Eve of Strike

The Los Angeles Times

Leigh-Ann Jackson, Forget teddy bears: This artist makes plush fried chicken, cigarettes and lottery tickets

Marissa Gluck, He had an L.A. home and studio built for $150,000 in 1985. It’s still a work of art

Jessica Gelt, Erewhon is now a permanent fixture at LACMA, complete with a museum-inspired smoothie

The New York Times

Deborah Solomon, Should Robert Rauschenberg’s Art Studio Be Saved?

Deborah Solomon, Artists’ Studios Where Creativity Is on Display

Karla Adam, British Museum Says It’s Extending Bayeux Tapestry Viewing Hours

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at the New York Film Festival: Andrew Haigh’s ‘A Long Winter’

Jordan Riefe, At the Getty, the Beauty of Medieval Manuscripts Is in the Materials

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Pope Leo builds the Church’s case that an A.I. output is not art

Adam Schrader, Widow seeks Sandy Heller’s records on $29.6M drop in late husband’s art collection

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Tracey Amon’s bid for Sandy Heller’s Artmon valuation records

Adam Schrader, French photographer scans faces in the dark for X_RAY portraits

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, How Feral Dogs Marshaled a Defense Against Nuclear Weapons, and Other Animal Stories Erin Johnson’s Films Tell

The Art Newspaper

Annabel Keenan, How an EU-funded research programme has been future-proofing art conservation

Gareth Harris, British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours

Ayla Jean Yackley, How Turkey is racing to save Gallipoli’s vanishing shipwrecks

J. Cabelle Ahn, New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists

Ben Luke, Comment | ‘Britart’ started well in the 1990s—but it soon became as bad as Britpop

EDITOR’S PICK - Riah Pryor, Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership: Recent US lawsuits, including a row over underpricing, reveal weaknesses in the market

Louisa Buck, Grounding ourselves: new exhibition in London explores our complex relationship to the earth

Tim Schneider, Comment | The Brooklyn Museum’s manga exhibition reveals the opportunities and challenges of tackling a global phenomenon

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Jeff Koons Offloads $100M Worth of Art at Christie’s

Richard Whiddington, Meet Jodi the Nanotyrannus, a New Dinosaur With a $9M Price Tag

Sonia Manalili, Takeaways from Hong Kong’s Auctions

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Thaddaeus Ropac Nabs Denzil Forrester, Revered Painter of U.K. Nightlife

Katya Kazakina, Luhring Augustine Gallery Is Closing Its Tribeca Branch

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Hong Kong’s Fall Auctions Top $255M

Min Chen, Andy Warhol’s Mythical Pop Art Book Gets a Second Life

Richard Whiddington, Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought at Estate Sale for $30, Nets $1.35M at Auction

Annikka Olsen, Lee Bul Floats a Giant Airship in Chelsea

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint Fight Night! Artists vs. Critics, Critics vs. Critics, and More!

ARTnews

Anne Doran, An Exhibition Devoted to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock Argues for Krasner’s Equal Significance

Andy Battaglia, What Changing Views of the Young British Artists Say About the Art World Today

Brian Boucher and Maximilíano Durón, Independent Acquired by Global Conglomerate Informa

Tessa Solomon, Guggenheim and Brooklyn Museum Unions Ratify New Contracts, Averting Strikes

Anne Doran, Swiss Government to Fund Research into Holdings of Cultural Artifacts

Hikmat Mohammed, British Museum Refunds Bayeux Tapestry Visitors After Closing Early for Reception Attended by Princess Anne

Francesca Aton, Ingrid Wiener, Viennese Actionist Artist and Collaborator of Valie Export and Dieter Roth, Dies at 83

Brian Boucher, Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza, Undercutting its Rhetoric of Accessibility

Francesca Aton, Insufficient Public Funding Identified as Biggest Threat to Global Heritage Sites, New World Monuments Fund Study Finds

Maximilíano Durón, As New York City Doubles Grants for Individual Artists to $10,000, Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij Discusses Vision for City Agency

Leigh Anne Miller, Buddhas and Dinosaur Bones Among Dozens of Smuggled Artifacts Repatriated to China

George Nelson, After Selling Napoleon Memorabilia, Sotheby’s Turns to His Enemy, Horatio Nelson, for $8 M. Auction

Financial Times

Christian House, Kylie Manning: the Alaskan fisher-turned-painter with an eye for oceans

Glenn Adamson, Beverly Buchanan: the rediscovered talent with a taste for the ramshackle

The Guardian

Veronica Esposito, ‘Each artist on their own terms’: why Lee Krasner was every bit the equal to husband Jackson Pollock

Ben Eastham, Play that funky Turbine Hall! How artist Tarek Atoui aims to take the Tate on a sonic odyssey

Zoe Wood, From hotel suites to virtual reality, museums turn to licensing deals as costs rise

Oliver Wainwright, ‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery

Eddy Frankel, Mike Nelson review – a waking nightmare of derelict dunes and desert island despair

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Tom of Finland Foundation Turmoil

Hakim Bishara, Between Worlds

Min Park, Maia Ruth Lee Invites Us to Embody the Interval

Anna Lee, Mamdani Doubles Grants for NYC Artists

Rhea Nayyar, Three NYC Museum Unions Ratify Contracts, Averting Strikes

Matt Stromberg, Queer Artists Say Tom of Finland Foundation Has Lost Its Way

Hrag Vartanian, Mala Iqbal Paints the Space We Share With Strangers

Anna Lee, British Museum to Provide Bayeux Tapestry Audio Tour After Lawsuit

Anna Lee, Francis Lee Rogers, Painter and Avid Birdwatcher, Found Dead in Central Park

The Los Angeles Times

The New York Times

Zachary Small, Jeff Koons Is Selling $100 Million of His Personal Art Collection

Kim Córdova, A Show Gives a Taste of What a U.S. Pavilion in Venice Might Have Been

Amei Wallach, From Love and Pain, Game-Changing Art

The New Yorker

Zachary Fine, Arthur Jafa’s Odyssey of Appropriation

Observer

Christa Terry, The Nobel Prize Diploma’s Century Long Artistic History

Dan Duray, Michael J. Anderson Grew OKCMOA’s Collection by 30 Percent. Now He’s Bringing His Approach to Portland.

Elisa Carollo, Untitled Art Finds Its Footing in Houston With Its Second Edition

Elisa Carollo, Corporate Cultural Investments Are Finding Their Place in ESG Reporting

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Santa Barbara museum says Beanie Babies billionaire waited too long to sue

Adam Schrader, 36 antiquities returned to Syria, including 13 seized from the Met

Adam Schrader, Seattle painter: skip the open-call fee, buy ‘really good sandwiches’ instead

Adam Schrader, Mariam Megalla works two jobs to pay for her Brooklyn Army Terminal studio

Adam Schrader, Urgent Matter’s October 2026 list of art-world jobs and residencies

Adam Schrader, Artist fractures finger at NARS residency amid yearlong O-1 visa wait

Adam Schrader, Valeria Deminova builds her first home studio after a year without one

The Wall Street Journal

Joe Stonor, Brits Are Arguing Over Who Gets to See a 230-Foot Long Embroidered Cloth

From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 4

Karen Wilkin, ‘Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous’ Review: Abstract Painting’s Power Couple at the Met

Isaac Sligh, ‘John Baer’ Review: Bearing Witness to the Postwar Era

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